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52 Weeks of 2018
Week No: 12
Theme: Shallow-focus portrait
Category: Portrait
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Sometimes, when birds hatch, they "imprint" on human caretakers, treating a human as a parent. In a presentation, an intern told a group of volunteers that Echo, the barred owl had "reverse imprinted" on humans. He gets anxious around us.
Echo often tries to scare us away with his often-imitated series of hoots.
Prior to the presentation, I'd wondered why Echo acted that way, but the barred owls at the other zoo do not.
an eastern cottontail rabbit staring me down in RMANWR, Denver, CO.
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I can see a face in this old fencepost. It looks rather old and worn, and full of character.
Happy fence Friday! Bah! Humbug!
When the wind blew his feathers upwards it made him look so grumpy and therefore even more adorable :)
Well yesterday we were food shopping in Penzance, you know as you do and well when we came out of the supermarket the sky looked like a major thunderstorm had developed! My kind of conditions! So I legged it over the road (past the tramps and drug infested toilets) and to an outcrop of rocks just beside the road! Well I had 10 minutes (under strict instructions from my wife) and I managed to make this image, before the water cut me off and I had to wade back over slippy rocks to a grumpy wife waiting in the car with two (well one to be honest) very grumpy kids… Anyway the things we do in the pursuit of art!!!
This little guy was just perched on the leaf minding his own business waiting for a fly. He was in a meditative state and didn't see my camera getting closer and closer. All of a sudden he looked up, furrowed his eyebrows and jumped off the leaf. I love it when that happens.
Candid at Camden Lock Market
Interesting daily market, but this guy thinks otherwise, I didnt buy anything from him......
More info : www.camdenlock.net/camdenlock/main/main.html
Have a nice weekend everybody
More London here :
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More candids here
This is Kiko, a young spectacled owl, only 7 months old. I met Kiko for the first time a few weeks ago at the Animal fair at Stuttgart and some of you may remember the photo I posted of him then. This capture was taken in early December when I visited the falconry to which he belongs. I think I woke him up from his late morning nap, it's awful to open your eyes and the first thing you see is a camera. :)
AKA .. Muscovy Duck ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovy_Duck
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