Female Hooded Merganser and an Eerie Tale.
It was rather dark and dreary during this weekend outing with the occasional rain shower. Lots of Hooded Mergansers, mostly males, but all hanging out in the middle of the pond...too far for good photography. One female came in close to shore and stayed a few minutes, providing some good opportunities.
Eerily some police cruisers showed up and cordoned off part of the parking lot for this park and started combing an area of the park about 100 feet from where I was. I was lying down taking these pictures...while the police were themselves taking pictures of the area for potential clues. A naked knifed-up body was found (alive, thank goodness) and subsequently 4 people have been charged with attempted murder. Had I parked in that section of the parking lot instead (as I sometimes do) I likely would have been the one to stumble unto that body as I am typically the first one there...
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, about 75% FF, neutralized a nasty blue cast via Colour Balance, toned down a couple of bright areas in the BG via burn tool, NR to BG and FG.
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