▪ A Craftsman-tier evaluation means you are making technically competent images with clean exposure and focus — the fundamentals are in place and the camera is no longer the obstacle. ▪ To reach 9+ on this image, two things would need to align: the decisive moment of the crest raising or head shaking captured at its peak (not the static aftermath), and a lower camera position at the pelican's eye level rather than looking down at it. Here is what that frame would have looked like: the pelican mid-shake, water droplets frozen in the air around its head, crest feathers at full extension, the camera at water level so the viewer is placed inside the pelican's world rather than observing it from above. That is the frame where access wonder and behavioural wonder coincide. ▪ **David Yarrow** — his polar bear and African elephant work is built on the principle that the camera position changes the emotional register of the image entirely. Eye level or below = the viewer is placed inside the subject's world. Above eye level = the viewer is observing from safety. Your frame is one camera height away from that shift. Search: David Yarrow polar bear eye level.