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<\/p>\nThese aren’t serious images, in fact I’d probably categorize them as novelty photos. But I still find them visually interesting and somehow they seem appropriate for Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Years ago when I was active in Nature Photographers Network (a photo critique forum) my friend Richard Ditch taught me to appreciate graphic lines in an image. I immediately thought of him when I saw these two photos<\/p>\n
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I photographed this Black-necked Stilt recently at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge as it strode through the shallow, smooth water which provided clear reflections. I didn’t even notice the interesting (some may say distracting) geometric\u00a0shapes of the reeds and their reflections until I looked at the images on my screen at home.<\/p>\n
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I took several images of the bird as it walked right through the geometric shapes but I particularly enjoyed this one with the bird’s tail perfectly bisecting one vertical reed and its reflection. Throw in the shapes of those long, pink legs and their reflections and there’s lots going\u00a0on in these images.<\/p>\n
There are distracting dark spots in the water that I could have removed but they were part of the natural scene so I chose to leave them.<\/p>\n
These images won’t have universal appeal and that’s ok but I found them interesting enough that I kept going back to look at them so I thought there might be at least a few readers out there who also enjoy a little occasional weirdness.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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These aren’t serious images, in fact I’d probably categorize them as novelty photos. But I still find them visually interesting and somehow they seem appropriate for Saturday morning.<\/p>\n