Tuesday, April 24, 2012

April 23 - Fluffy



Still playing with borders today with these 'fluffy' subjects - a nesting box of chicks just a few days old (with a 'page curl' effect) and a tiny friar bird with downy fluff still on his head and a displacement map border with embossed edges.

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  1. Such wary innocence! While I think that, from a technical point of view, the bottom is the better photo, there is something infinitely appealing about the the expression of that enchanting bird in the first shot.

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    1. Yep, s/he's cute now - but grows up ugly ;) one of our not-so-pretty honeyeaters, and noisy too - but they do have a kind of interesting song at times ... My challenge has been to take a photo of one of the adults that is beautiful - hard when you have a leathery head and plain colours - but I do have one at breeding time where the boy looks quite distinguished with his ruff of creamy feathers at the neck.

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  2. My Little chick-a-dees!

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  3. such sweet photos, another bad hair day /:>) that page curl is cool...and I sort of am partial to the richer, deeper colours of the chicks, ugly in adulthood or not I've totally fallen for the wee friar....

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  4. Lovely shots...I'm not a great fan of borders but you have done a great job on both of these

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  5. I too like the expression on the friar bird..kinda like "Who you callin' ugly?"

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  6. I like the attitude of the friar bird too. Nice fluffs!

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  7. I like the way you captured the downy look of the top chick! The cuddle of chicks is adorable. They grow so fast these are great shots!

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