brolgas

[Zullu]

Taken from a bus. Point and shoot sort of situation. It has been heavily cropped and slightly edited but can't figure how to make the subject stand out from the background more.

[grandmarocks]

try to dodge the highlights on the birds at about 50% and burn the grass shadows at about 30% . That should help.

[kung-fu-alien]

Its a really quick edit (and it shows) but it shows you a slight difference between you original image and my edited version.

I basically increased the red to 2, green to 5 anf blue to 30.

Used dodge brush at 35% or the grass and sharpened the birds.

Like I said, its not a fantastic edit, but it gives you a rough idea of how te image can be altered if you have the time - unfortunatly I didn't, kids were hounding me for ice cream.

[belgian pie]

Ok, did a quick editing job and cropped it a little more ... just to show what's possible but if you start from the original you can do a better job