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“Our lives at times seem a study in contrast… love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong… everything seen in absolutes of black & white.
Too often we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.”
– Ansel Adams
Emotions in Black and White 15
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia vitriolina (Scrub Tanager / Tangara Rastrojera)
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
It was the contrasts which caught my eye when I was setting up this scene... Along with the B&W harmonics it made for a nice composition.
What I did not see at the time was the 'Paisley' design the ducks created in their formation.
In one shot they were all in an almost perfect circle, but the overall composition wasn't appealing.
I also shot this scene with my Nikon, but somehow it all looked flat. - and now I don't even own a cellphone..
The sun setting around a big tree provided the light/shadow in the background in this irrigated field. I have three boys, two away in college, so this one tugged the Dusty strings.
I will be gone Sat-Mon and I hope you all enjoy the weekend.
Walking by the Faneuil Hall and saw the contrasting architectural styles of the modern buildings surrounding a colonial style building in downtown Boston
Blue-gray gnatcatchers are, without a doubt, one of the most special and entertaining birds the US has to offer. With a pretty sky-blue back contrasting with a paler shade of blue, along with white and black, they boast what I think is one of the more underrated color combinations when it comes to Neotropical migrants, and I’m sure they know it because they sure like to flip those tails around (kidding, that’s a foraging technique). That isn’t the only thing about them that’s underrated; males are pretty great songsters too, emitting an intricate series of what is both their own little babbles and little phrases of other species songs. I even found yesterday that they are able to mimic new vocalizations on the spot. Unfortunately, these guys have the luck of returning earlier than the warblers, and they only get two weeks of fame before what many people consider the real show falls upon our forests. That’s okay, though- they get right to pairing up and nest-building and have fledged young by the end of June, so I think they couldn’t care less about how much attention we pay to them.