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Coot

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Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 31, 2006 at 12:08 AM
Coot
Yesterday at Ridgefield. Lots of activity there, but no chicks visible yet. Several beavers scouting around too.
D200, 80-400 vr at 380, 1/320, F8, braced on beanbag on open car window.
Cropped 4 sides, levels, sharpened, a couple irksome, distracting branches cloned out from lower left
Posted by Erik Lundh on May 31, 2006 at 12:56 AM
Sandy,
Your quite the wildlife photographer. This is another well thought out image. Keep up the good work and keep em coming! :wavey:
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 31, 2006 at 2:22 AM
As my bro said, you are really active out there. Nice image of the coot...but that bubbly guck is kinda gross :eek:
Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 31, 2006 at 3:11 AM
After more than a year of extremely busy work stuff (writing a book, still unfinished) and almost no time for photography, I really burned out and am now trying to regain my sanity and get out in nature again. I have not found a good balance yet!

The "green,bubbly gook" is what these guys eat, I think, so they are happy with it! :-) It's hard to tell, but this coot is eating a piece of it here. Wish I could have isolated that bit better.
S.