It's great to see her again, and what a beautiful calling pose, Bill. We had great overcast light to work with, and the subtly colors both on her and the water display nicely.
Nice. Love the calling pose. The bird looks as if it could go just a bit brighter on my monitor. What do others think?
with love, arite
ps: Nickerson has been excellent this week.
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Thanks Artie. I wondered if a bit brighter might help. Worth a try. I've been thinking about Nickerson all week, wishing I were there. Unfortunately my damaged right wing has kept me homebound. There's always next year.
How did you hurt yourself. I fell in my home --slipped on a puddle from my swim suit -- and had a complete tear of the left supra-spinatus, one of the rotator cuff muscles. I declined the surgery with thanks and have been doing pretty darned well.
YAW. With love, artie
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Artie, you probably did well to decline surgery. I don't know if my condition is different from yours, but I was advised that there was zero chance it would heal on its own. I think the rotator cuff had been deteriorating for the better part of this year, but I pretended it was just an impingement for which I was already undergoing PT. In mid-June I was in a Zodiac in the Barents Sea near Svalbard, starting to kneel down for a lower POV of a Black Guillemot, when my camera/lens rig started to slip from my shoulder. I turned and grabbed it, in an awkward position, and felt the shoulder tear. That was the coup-de-grace. I then stupidly went out in a kayak among the icebergs in the Arctic waters. When I got home, the MRI showed the right supraspinatus "flapping in the breeze", as the surgeon described it. Totally torn from the shoulder bone. So I'm now out of commission, probably until the end of the year. I'm sure the birds will still be around next year.
Nice image, particularly the quacking pose. I agree you could add a bit of light on the bird, and I think the whole image could be warmed a bit. I realize it was overcast but the image still feels a bit cool.