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    Default Golden Green-winged Teal.

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    This stud drake Green-winged Teal has found itself a female mallard to pair up with, and actually mated with her. Hoping this a successful courtship as it would be cool to see a hybrid brood between these two. Since this is not an autumn image, the yellow in the water is caused by a commination a distant huge still-bare weeping willow and some dried reeds at the far edge of the pond. I was in a very uncomfortable pose to get a low angle, including my being head lower than rest of my sideways lying body, so gave myself some extra shutter speed to compensate for some inevitable camera shake that may have been introduced with the awkward handholding position.

    Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2500s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, CW rotation then cropped to about 75% FF, tamed the yellow tail feathers via burn tool (and then sponge to add back saturation) as the were near blown. Same for the white stripe (minus the sponge).

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    Wowsa Dan, what a score a beautiful head turn, gorgeous light and the head just is beautiful with that iridescent green. This frame has it all, so well done, bring on the ducklings!

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    Hi Dan, beautiful bird, nicely shown. I like the low POV, nice post processing and composition. Thank you for sharing.
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    Beautiful frame, I appreciate the discomfort during acquisition! Its not worth it if it's easy, right? I can tell you had to do some work on the cream-yellow rear, but I think your salvage works pretty well. I'm still looking for my first keeper of this species, so I'm generally envious of this one.

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    DANIEL:

    Striking image, handsome fellow who is thinking big about mating with a mallard hen.

    I have to say, having spent a fair amount of time shooting with you, that you generally are in positions that I would consider uncomfortable !

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    Snazzy. That light and golden water is beyond killer. A great frame.

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    Superb as noted. My favorite parts are the reflected sky and the green halo on the rear flanks.

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