# Stuck in the Middle Again

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/stuck-in-the-middle-again/10810>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** weekly-challenge\
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/stuck-in-the-middle-again/10810 "2020-01-11T19:51:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cheryl\_Kuhl](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cheryl\_Kuhl](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Cheryl_Kuhl)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/stuck-in-the-middle-again/10810/1 "2020-01-11T19:51:58Z")

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### What technical feedback would you like if any? Any

### What artistic feedback would you like if any? Any

### Pertinent technical details or techniques:

This is what you do at Bosque del Apache when the light isn’t particularly good…you play and experiment. Just kind of fun. The blur seems to flatten an image.

Taken with a Nikon 810, Nikkor 28-300 f/3.5-5.6 on a tripod

Taken at F36, ISO 31, 1/13 second, focal length variable.  
(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Seaver](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/mark_seaver/32/231_2.png) [@Mark\_Seaver](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Mark_Seaver)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/stuck-in-the-middle-again/10810/2 "2020-01-12T14:15:01Z")

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A fun, zooming image, Cheryl. It’s always interesting on how boredom affects creativity. It took me a while, but now I see the ghostly goose images at the bottom and the central head and neck. For me, the open space at the bottom works well, while the open space at the top “feels” different., which has me wondering about a modest additional crop. A fine idea, well executed.