Hi Dan, Call me Artie. Having just gotten back, I am not sure of the cause of the problems that are being handled by James and Blake Shadle. I do not think that the uploading process has anything to do with the apparent lack of image quality in various posts. With this image I think the apparent problem with the look of the image is a result of the high shutter speed and accompanying narrow d-o-f. The birds in the lower part of the frame are much farther away and thus do not look sharp. I wish that I had made this image at 1/15th sec (with a much smaller aperture).