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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EliS" data-source="post: 1214467" data-attributes="member: 65340">Sam - Aww, Xara is so cute! (I've got a soft spot for border collies, they are such smart and cute dogs.)I thought I'd learned my lession of ambitious projects at this point, but oh no, here we go again. I chatted online for a while with a fellow birder, who's in north-eastern Finland at the moment. He told me about how old woods are cut down there, and how, from  Russia, there come trucks with more trees all the time.My subconscious started immediately working and created this picture of a bird arriving to its old home forrest which has been cut down. After letting my subconcious work a little more, I concluded I'd use (or: try to use) strong contrast of light and shadow, because it's shady in the woods, but when the woods are cut down, the sunshine is almost cruelly bright.I'm not sure what the species is gonna be... I started with a gray flycatcher in mind, but... Not sure yet. Sort of depends on whether I want to add some color to the piece or just keep it grayish-brownish. We'll see.Here's stage 1.</blockquote>