While this is not the iconic picture of these ducks perching on a tree limb, I liked the poses. This was shot in Costa Rica at a hotel near the airport. A small pond in the back of this hotel holds literally 100's of these ducks. Usually they fly from their roosts to surrounding fields early in the morning, but some do not leave the grounds. Instead they fly down to the pond and feed there. This image was processed in PS, applying a graduated blur to the background to try to compensate for the relative high POV (unable to get too low to water primarily because pond had resident Caimans (alligators). Not sure the blur helped.
Shot with a Canon R7, 100-500 at 500, SS 1/1250, f/7.1, ISO 1600, EC of -1.0. Increased saturation on ducks slightly, cloned out some floating debris.







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