Birds on the Waterfront

I took a walk through the entire length of "old town" Alexandria from the Metro to the waterfront where I saw this family throwing crumbs to birds as the sun set behind them.

GR II f/5.6 ISO 800

Post-processing in Lightroom, I lowered the highlights to bring out contrast in the sky and applied a graduated filter to lighten the foreground, matching intensity of the color on the water with the sky. Then I bumped up the saturation a bit to stylize the scene. The shutter speed of 1/125th of a second was just long enough to have a bit of motion blur in the birds' wings brushing against the glow of sunset.