{"id":167373,"date":"2025-03-18T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=167373"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:32:42","slug":"please-help-me-choose-a-photo-to-print-and-hang-in-my-new-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/18\/please-help-me-choose-a-photo-to-print-and-hang-in-my-new-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Help Me Choose A Photo To Print And Hang In My New Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little help from my friends?<\/p>\n

I’ve been absent from Feathered Photography for five days in a row (it’s been over 13 years since I’ve been absent for that long) because my pickup still isn’t repaired, so I haven’t been out shooting for so long it’s given me the heebie-jeebies. At this point I hope to get it fixed sometime this week. We’ll see how that<\/em> goes.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I continue to work on my new camping trailer. One of my many recent projects has been to try to personalize its interior a little, including hanging a print of one of my bird photos. Finding a place to hang one has been a huge challenge because wall space is severely limited in my little 15′ trailer. Most wall space has been commandeered by cabinets, windows, control panels and electrical outlets,<\/p>\n

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This 17 1\/2″ x 32″ space between the TV cabinet and countertop vertically and the electrical outlet and end of wall horizontally is the only practical space available to me. It’s a nontraditional place to hang a print but it’s all I have so I’m going with it. My interior trailer colors will be hard to complement but we do with what we have.<\/p>\n

I think this space dictates that the print will approach a wide format “pano” composition, which severely limits the photos I have to choose from. I’ve narrowed it down to two of my owl photos but I’m having a hard time making a final decision. So, given my personal challenges in the aesthetics department, I thought I’d ask my readers for help.<\/p>\n

If you have a preference between the two photos below as the choice for a print in this space, I’d like to hear about it.<\/p>\n

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Candidate #1.<\/p>\n

A very young Burrowing Owl about to land on a sagebrush on Antelope Island. I’ve always adored this shot but it has a weakness for printing. The bird’s wingtips are a little too close to the frame edge for comfort, especially once the print is framed. It isn’t a deal-killer, but it is a weakness.<\/p>\n

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Candidate #2.<\/p>\n

An adult male Short-eared Owl delivering a vole to his young family in Montana’s Centennial Valley. I love this photo of an owl that’s very special to me. My only hesitation about it is that…<\/p>\n

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I have a different but very similar large print of the same bird hanging in the living room of my home. Maybe having similar prints of the same bird in both places would be too much of a good thing.<\/p>\n

I’ve been stewing about this choice for so long I need a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts?<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A little help from my friends? (4 photos)<\/p>\n

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