{"id":99987,"date":"2021-07-06T05:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=99987"},"modified":"2021-07-06T05:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:28:47","slug":"house-wren-sometimes-simple-and-short-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/house-wren-sometimes-simple-and-short-is-best\/","title":{"rendered":"House Wren – Sometimes Simple (and short) Is Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Especially when so many of my recent posts have been long ones with many photos and lots of text to read.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, 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

Five days ago I paid another visit to the pair of House Wrens who have set up housekeeping inside a rusty old pipe in the mountains. I found this one of the pair perched on a smaller pipe directly below the larger one its nest is in. I didn’t stay long because the sun was already high enough in the sky to make getting a catch light in the eye difficult but I like the way this photo turned out.<\/p>\n

I like its simplicity with just the bird, the clean and homogenous background and and the linear pipe reaching from frame edge to frame edge. Years ago Richard Ditch<\/a><\/span><\/span>, one of my early bird photography mentors, taught me to appreciate simplicity and graphic lines in my images so I immediately thought of Rich when I saw this photo that included the pipe running from edge to edge. I also like the way the very similar colors of bird and perch make the wren almost seem like a non-linear extension of the pipe – a bump on a log so to speak.<\/p>\n

I realize this photo won’t appeal much to some of my readers. House Wrens are a ‘common’ species, the perch is far from natural and not everyone appreciates graphic lines – especially in nature photography.<\/p>\n

But it works for me so I decided to throw it out there.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Especially when so many of my recent posts have been long ones with many photos and lots of text to read.<\/p>\n

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