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<\/p>\nSometimes you grin and bear it and do what you’ve gotta do.<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Last spring, soon after I took this shot and a few others of a male Long-billed Curlew in flight, I posted several of them to my blog. Even though I like it I didn’t include this one because I didn’t have enough room in the frame for a composition that works for me. Yesterday, while looking for something else, I stumbled across it again and decided I liked it well enough to add the necessary canvas and allow it see the light of day.<\/p>\n In some of the other photos of him he was calling to another nearby curlew but I like this flight posture better than most of the others I got. He’s sharp, his head and long bill stand out well, I had good light on most of the bird and I like the background, in part because it includes at least some early spring greenery. I get tired of all the browns and tans in my backgrounds without even a hint of green.<\/p>\n Even with the added canvas I’m slightly less fond of the composition but for me it works well enough.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes you grin and bear it and do what you’ve gotta do.<\/p>\n