[Rob Barron]

Thanks for the comments, I deliberately chose to avoid blurring the background because of the FG being soft with the water, as Fi said. I agree Angela, the crop on the left is a bit tight, the top I can live with because it is in an empty space so doesn't affect it so much but sadly the left had to be cropped there simple because of the amount of junk on the left that I wanted to crop off. This was sort of the best balance between the two.

There are two reasons why I didn't side profile the dolphin Fi, one is because actually the angle I took it from is the ONLY angle with relatively little behind it. Move around it and you have the wharf, the hotel, the tower and tower bridge, all of which spoilt what I was trying to achieve. If I could have turned the statue I would have done :o)

The other reason is because, and I KNOW this makes me sound really prudish but that doesn't worry me, looking at the dolphin from the other side, the water height reaches almost directly in the region of the girls genitalia. Whilst I am well aware this is just a bronze statue so there is no rudeness involved, the way it turned out with the fountain really did draw your eye straight to that point of the statue and I wasn't happy to do that.

I worked hard to try and get the dolphin into a position where it had as little as possible behind it, hence you can see the dolphin's left fin is just away from the BG in its own space. It probably doesn't seem apparent, but I spent absolutely ages trying hard to get just the angle that gave the right shape, the right BG, etc. Was harder than it looks to be honest. I was very happy with the way the lighting worked out though.

Thanks again, all comments most appreciated.

Cheers,
Rob