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<\/p>\nBig, lumbering pelicans don’t provide many dynamic flight postures so having two or more birds in the frame can increase your chances of getting something else that the viewer finds visually appealing. For me each of these images, taken a week ago at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, has something a little extra provided by the relative positions of the two birds.<\/p>\n
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I’ve said before that homogenous blue skies aren’t my favorite background. If this image contained only one of the two pelicans (either one) I’d find it pretty boring. But I think the relative position of the rear bird’s head, framed so perfectly by the curvature of the right wing of the nearest pelican, makes up for the plain blue sky background. Both birds are acceptably sharp and even though the\u00a0pelicans aren’t completely separated they cross\u00a0mostly at the wingtips so I’m not particularly bothered by it.<\/p>\n
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Here it’s the apparent proximity of the two birds to each other\u00a0combined with their similar flight postures that grabs my attention. Similar to race cars it almost looks like the rear bird is “drafting” the bird in front and it’s possible that’s exactly what’s happening. Throw in\u00a0the interesting background\u00a0(the Promontory Mountains) and for me the overall appeal of the image is increased significantly.<\/p>\n
Some viewers will notice that I haven’t included camera settings and other image techs. I screwed them up in the field – big time, and just decided that I didn’t want to be embarrassed by them.<\/p>\n
Hey, it’s my blog. I can do<\/em> that! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Big, lumbering pelicans don’t provide many dynamic flight postures so having two or more birds in the frame can increase your chances of getting something else that the viewer finds visually appealing. <\/p>\n