Are two heads better than 1?

[Zukie]

Watched this little guy swim by me twice but he didn't want his picture taken. He'd dive, and disappear for 15-18 seconds; then resurface in a different location about 20 feet away, but would only stay in view for about 3 seconds.
I was lucky enough to get 1 keeper out of approx 20 shots, before he disappeared for good.

My daughter favours the cropped version; my wife favours the original. What do you guys think?

[asnow]

My preference is the original. The cropped one just feels a little too tight to me. Also love that blue tone, especially in the first one.

[Runmonty]

First one for me too. May make an interesting abstract type shot rotated 90 degrees right

[QuietOne]

First one. And yeah, cormorants are pains that way.

[Hillbillygirl]

Def loses something in the crop version. Original all the way for me. Nicely done btw.

[missyinmuskoka]

first one for me too! I am always obsessed with giving the subject room to move out of the frame, but for this example I think it works better the way you have cropped it. Thanks for showing me that rules are meant to be broken

[Zukie]

Thanks so much for the great comments everyone.

[aubintbay]

First one for me too....its the water. Nice!

[Matt K.]

Great stuff indeed ....