{"id":89257,"date":"2020-09-06T05:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89257"},"modified":"2020-09-06T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:06:03","slug":"a-cedar-waxwing-becomes-part-and-parcel-of-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/06\/a-cedar-waxwing-becomes-part-and-parcel-of-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cedar Waxwing Becomes Part And Parcel Of A Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can one of a photo’s strengths also be a weakness? I’m asking for help in evaluating this one.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89260\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/06\/a-cedar-waxwing-becomes-part-and-parcel-of-a-tree\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,701\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1599118779","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"cedar waxwing 4031b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley-300x234.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89260 size-full\" title=\"cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three days ago in the mountains I sat at this usually productive tree for about half an hour waiting for cooperative birds to appear but this Cedar Waxwing was my only taker. ‘He’ posed long enough for me to get many photos and this is one of my favorites. But I’m ambivalent about the photo for the following reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Typically I’m not a fan of plain blue sky backgrounds and this electric blue is pretty intense. I also usually prefer to actually see most or all of the bird in my photos rather than having much of its body obstructed by vegetation, as is the case here.<\/p>\n<p>But… I really like the composition of the photo and except for a small portion of the red stem and a couple of leaves at lower right the entire perch is sharp, as is the bird. And one of the things I don’t like actually has strong appeal for me but on a different level.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, those three leaves block our view of about half of the waxwing but one of them conforms exactly to the profile of the of the bird’s back and the another one seems to curl around and envelop the left side of the waxwing in almost a protective way. For me the overall effect of those two features makes the bird almost become part of the tree. I like that as a visual symbol of the interdependence of nature.<\/p>\n<p>So I’m waffling about the photo and I’m probably overanalyzing anyway.<\/p>\n<p>How about a little help from my friends? A keeper or not?<\/p>\n<p>If you have an opinion please be brutally honest.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can one of a photo’s strengths also be a weakness? I’m asking for help in evaluating this one.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/06\/a-cedar-waxwing-becomes-part-and-parcel-of-a-tree\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,2659],"tags":[1720,1651,5327,311],"class_list":["post-89257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-cedar-waxwings","tag-bombycilla-cedrorum","tag-cedar-waxwing","tag-keeper-or-not","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cedar-waxwing-4031b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ndD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}