Such elegance

So I was in LA for Christmas/New Years. I had a new tamron lens on me and was eager to put it to the test. Ironically this was not shot with my tamron but instead a 200mm (also for the first time, yeah I haven't been very fortunate or experienced with lenses up to this point) So here I was at the LA arboretum finding anything even remotely photogenic.

I imagine it's not that hard to shoot a peacock as they're not easily intimidated by the presence of humans. But he was in just the right position for this shot, I had enough prior training with focus beforehand to make the peacock stand out from the rest of the photo (again, rookie days).

The photo was dominantly blue for some reason, which at first I thought was a mistake I had to fully rectify, but I thought "hold on, a peacock is blue, that's my vibrance right there" So after raising the temperature on the rest of the photo, I painted the bird from the original shot back in.

I love peacocks personally, majestic and unique birds, gives a good display, not outwardly hostile, I like that. But was it worth coming out to LA for, (literally 5 days before the LA fires started)?

Maybe not, but I'm thankful I got this anyway. This is the only wildlife photo I really have so I'm not in a whole lot of convenient groups for this shot, feel free to request to share this if you like it

Done