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Mating Pair
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Mating Pair

by Charles Gangas

Gallery: AvianPosted November 17, 2011153 views2 comments
This is the last of the Hooded Mergansers (promise) that I captured in Cambridge, MA a few weeks ago. The leaves from the surrounding trees were casting a variety of colored reflections on the pond, and what I like here is the water around the hen compliments her coloring as does the different hues that surround the drake.

D3s
500mm F/4.0
1/400s @ f/7.1
ISO 200
-1 1/3EV
Pattern

Comments

2 comments
Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on November 17, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Very nice Chuck; you can never have too many Hoodies.I like the pano crop but think it would be stronger if it were cropped a little tighter to the male's butt, with a bit more of that gorgeous water for the hen to swim into.
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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on November 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Nice getting both together and in focus. Love the look of the water.

Ray
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