I’m pleased to share this image titled,
“Catching a Flying Fish”.
It has been awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in
33rd Memorial Maria Louisa photo contest in Spain.
It is shot with Canon R 5 and EF 500 mm IS II lens.
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Wow, that’s awesome @JRajput
Congratulations! Well deserved.
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Wonderful!! Congrats on a top notch image.
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Wow, that is quite an honor!
It is a magnificent capture so I can see why the judges were drawn to it 
Congratulations!
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J…what an amazing time and place nano-moment. Congratulations on this fine image and ANY awards or acknowledgments you might receive with it… 
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Congratulations! It certainly is a winner in my book.
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What an incredible image!! Congratulations! If this didn’t get first place, you had some amazing competition.
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Congratulations on an impressive and awesome image and win.
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The Decisive Moment for sure!
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Congratulations! It’s a fantastic image and well deserved of the recognition.
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Congratulations Jagdeep! Well deserved and awesome image!
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Great image - well done!
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J, congratulations on your outstanding image and win! You caught the moment perfectly, with great light and sharp focus. Not to take anything away from your well-deserved win, but I think maybe the reason it didn’t get first place was because of the distracting out-of-focus blobs in the background. I can envision an argument about the aesthetics and ethics of editing those out, but my personal preference would be to remove them. I tried a quick and dirty edit on your post, to illustrate what I mean.
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Thank you @Patrick_Campbell for your kind suggestion, but participating in international competitions is a different game. If you read the rules of any good competition, they clearly say that you are not allowed to add or remove anything from the image. I happened to subdue that blob, but had I removed it, they would have rejected the image, while comparing to the Raw file.
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Man, the timing and sharpness of this is just incredible. Congratulations on catching this not often seen action.
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@JRajput, compared with some of the composites I have seen on the web, removing the blobs seems to me to be no big deal. Maybes submit one version for competitions, and print another for hanging on the wall? 
Again, congrats on your win and on capturing the decisive moment so well!
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Hello Jagdeep
I’ve been away from this platform for a while and see I missed quite a lot!
Congratulations on the capture of this great moment and your well-deserved award for that in the MML competition, one of the best in the world when it comes to nature photography. I know one thing and that is that they are particularly strict on the post processing and would disqualify you for getting rid of or dodging the blobs. So well done to get a prize with this very strict competition!!!
All the best, Ingrid.
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Thank you so much Ingrid !