ARCHIVE 586 – CROW, IN WILD SKY
November 25, 2020 12 Comments
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Carrion Crow over our back garden, not long after dawn; 27 Nov 2011.
I very much like the limited palette of colours but – as is so often the case – I prefer this version to monochrome. The crow – which looks for all the world like a Photoshop insert! – is purposely positioned away from any of the composition’s visual strong points, but with space ahead to fly into. Actually quite a reasonably sized bird, it looks so small here against the vast sky and very solid looking clouds: this is intentional.
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Technique: D700 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 200mm; 800 ISO.
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I can’t resist leaving another comment – I love the way you framed this – that heavy cloud….
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Very glad it gets to you, Lynn – thank you! 🙂
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I love this! The color, the composition, the aspect ratio, the subject—all excellent.
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Helen, thank you very much! 🙂
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Love this – and doesn’t the crow look graceful flying in that empty space. Love your composition and the ominous sky at the top.
Funnily enough, I tried to photograph a crow flying this morning just as fog came down. Not sure of the results – haven’t checked them yet!
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Glad you like this, M – just back from dawn route march >>> some very icy pavements! 🙂
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Hope you didn’t slip. I’m hopeless on icy surfaces – no sense of balance 🙂
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Well, I’m 70 now, and in some ways feeling it – I’m not as steady as I was on my feet, and like you, very apprehensive re ice. I think its important to acknowledge such things and to take extra care – 2 of my friends, my age, have recently come a cropper falling off their pushbikes.
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I love how the color goes softer, top to bottom. What a capture! And the crow is perfectly positioned. Worthy of a place on the wall with a very fancy frame. 👍🏼
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Thank you, Gem, thank you so much! ATP 💖 xxxXXX!!!
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I really like your choice of format for this one, and that you included the ominous clouds at the top.
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Thank you, Gary – its all about the bird, and its being quite at home in the vast and turbulent atmosphere that it lives in. 🙂
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