American Crow photographed in central Oregon, August 2011. I added canvas all around (easy with the even blue sky) and did some bill clean-up. The crows & gulls are the trash collectors of the picnic areas. Once they see you setting out the food they immediately fly in and hang around. They do a great job and don't even need a paycheck!
Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 400 f4 DO IS, 1/640, f9, exp. comp +1/3, ISO 400
Nice job on the blacks. A lower pole would have been nice :).
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She HAD a lower pole, and had to extend it to add canvas Happens to me too often. That's a great job making a crow look respectable, and even err... lovely. I like it a lot. Would love to have his feet. You might want to run a little healing brush over the distinctive features duped on the pole.