Reply #4: I almost posted this one

[Celebration]

And you might like it better. I think I may.........there is the bird flying but also another one in the lower left. This looks kind of eerie and scary, but it was more just the way the clouds were passing behind these particular trees. Hubby was fishing and moving the boat around so I had to wait until the bare tree and clouds were in the same frame. I'm sort of a sucker for silhouette shots myself, and bare trees are pretty good candidates for that. As for cropping, yeah, I almost always do that, but I was trying to see what happened with no processing. Landscapes that you can set up do better with that than birds.