Animal
We were eating at a restaurant along our drive and a seagull was eyeing everyone's food. I imagined him as an investigative detective looking for evidence, and thought the irony of him being a detective would fit my theme.
I experimented with lots of different looks for this photo, first putting a hat on the seagull. I thought it needed more, so I tried making some extreme changes to the clarity and dehaze settings, but I still didn't like it. I finally thought the photo would better fit my theme if it were raining and if it were black and white, and I thought these would make the photo way more interesting, which was what I wanted.
I like how this photo turned out. It's just how I imagined the bird when we were eating lunch. I especially like how the tail feathers pop out of the picture and how it's raining into water, which fills up the entire photo. The bird looks like he's contemplating a mystery.