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"Grace"
Photograph by: Benjamin DeHaven
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This particular morning at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware, there were a multitude of herons, egrets, eagles and shorebirds, as well as a good variety of small birds flitting about in the marsh. The softly muted sunlight was perfect for bird photography. I spotted this beautiful Great Egret as it gracefully approached to land and only had a few seconds to capture the image. I knew immediately that the symmetry of the wings and body along with the perfect extension of the feet would be more impactful as a square-cropped image. The grace of the egret is offset by the tension of not giving the bird space in the image to "fly into".
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"The Eye"
Photograph by: Benjamin DeHaven
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Normally I hate cropping wings off on a bird shot, but in this case I did it to bring all the focus to the eye of the Bald Eagle. I think if I had left all of the wings, the viewer would have focused on the whole eagle more than on just the eye.
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"A Gull Walks Through"
Photograph by: Benjamin DeHaven
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A gull walks into a sandbar... But seriously, these pristine tracks caught my eye while on Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington. I loved the way the light set off the tracks and how they lead the viewer through the otherwise textured scene. I just wish I knew what gull left the tracks as it might have been a life bird for me. Gulls can be hard to identify down to the species level, especially when you are unfamiliar with the area as I was. All I know is there were three of them and they were fighting over something that had washed up on the beach.
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"Peach"
Photograph by: Debbie Jordan
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Sometimes you have a photograph in mind when you go out to "do photography" and you put a lot of effort into meeting those expectations of the perfect photo. More often than not in nature photography, however, the subject that presents itself in front of the camera will decide for you what will be photographed. The soft colors and the many angular shapes of the petals of this peony seemed to beg me to capture the image above. The raw file of the photo was the standard 2 by 3 ratio and included some of the stems and leaves of the plant. However, after taking a more creative approach to the final photo, I decided that a square crop would be more effective and by placing the center of the flower slightly off center the image has better movement and gesture.
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