{"id":41312,"date":"2016-03-02T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=41312"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T04:20:02","slug":"the-roseatte-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/the-roseatte-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roseatte Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roseatte<\/a><\/p>\n

The Roseatte Spoonbill is such a gorgeous bird, especially in the spring. It’s then their pink becomes almost neon as they dawn their best for attracting the opposite sex. The beauty of them is the subtle shades of pink that sculpt their form. Then there is their bill that gives them their name. A resident of our southern Gulf states the majority of the time, they take on the allure of being a tropical bird making them even more mysterious as beautiful. In the search for photographing these magnificent creatures going beyond the basic portrait seems like it might be a challenge. But the only challenge is finding them early in the morning, the rest is pretty simple.<\/p>\n

\"Roseatte<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s when the sun first kisses them that they tend to get cleaned up for the day. Better known as prenning, they are putting all their feathers in order while water proofing them once again. Of course, we could say the males are grooming themselves to look good for the ladies and we might not be too far wrong. The challenge then is to find those locales where they spend the night where the sun first kisses them. There are actually lots of locales where that happens, I’m fortunate to know a few. Then once there, the next challenge is having a long enough lens to control the background because you are often shooting up on them on perches. The light coming through the canopy in the background, that bright highlight, can ruin the whole early morning feel. In this case, I was shooting 800mm<\/a> \/ D4s<\/a> and moved constantly to keep up with the birds and the background (underexposing -2\/3. Lastly, I wanted more then just a portrait. Early in the morning when they are “grooming,” those wings spread and the bill moves about. That little bit of biology brings interest and a storytelling brings life to the Spoonbill. With that color, that’s all it takes to make someone stop and look at your photo.<\/p>\n

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The Roseatte Wing<\/a><\/blockquote>