My latest collaboration with Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles of CornDancer fame.
I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.corndancer.com/crow/crowgloss/gloss060079/crwglss69.html
My latest collaboration with Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles of CornDancer fame.
I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.corndancer.com/crow/crowgloss/gloss060079/crwglss69.html
All downhill from here 
Quite a fine bit of writing and some superior photographs, Andrew. Possibly the Stonechat’s spell is responsible for your renewed interest in birds.
BTW, I presently live in the county of Hampshire.
Well I never! Another Hampshire indeed. The English Hampshire is spectacularly beautiful and I enjoyed my many years there. Time for you to do another CornDancer piece, Steve.
Our Hampshire is nice enough, Andrew. Not spectacular but there are some nice spots.
The sous chef has done the preparation, and the editorial Maestro is now sauteing the bits into some palatable paragraphs. 🙂
The bird is staring straight at me and somehow knows I have been fibbing. Uncanny expression. Must have been a teacher in the previous life.
I can’t believe you fib, Gerard. Elaborate, embellish, yes. Fib? No.
All of the photographs on the site are amazing, but this one (above) is a true stare-down. On the link, gave excellent details and information. Thank you!
Yes I did enjoy – both your photographs (fabulous) and the accompanying text with very interesting references…more please
I’ll try to do more, Jenny. It’s a good project.
Exceptional photographs. The writing about the Stonecaht is entertaining and not at all dull as some information about birds tends to be. I like this style very much.
Me, too — about the style. I do hope Andrew continues to write for CornDancer and Crow’s Cottage. The tone and voice he developed for “Bird of the Black Arts” is sophisticated. I was gonna put an adjective or two before that last word, but…. It’ll speak for itself. Thanks, Andrew!
I’m off to look up sophisticated in a dictionary. Thanks Eb.
No need, Andrew. It’s Greek for cool.
Thank you Yvonne. I think my style is an acquired taste!
What a beauty! The detail is very nice and I really like the subtly changing background, it really complements the colours of the feathers. I’m off to visit corndancer
Thanks Rod. I hope you enjoyed the full piece.
I really did. More wonderful photographs in large format and very interesting information told well. Very nicely done.
Hi Andrew. I just ran out of space on wordpress media library. Do you optimize your images before uploading them to wordpress. I did take the liberty of copying one of your photos, only to see the file size – I deleted it afterwards. It did seem it was a smaller file-size than the original would have been. I am trying to rationalize between web quality and efficiency of space (I know it can also make it faster for displaying too).
Any advice on this. Your images are always excellent and I am able to click on them and see great detail.
If you have time – I’d love to hear your take on this. Rod
Rod, the images are exported from Lightroom 4 to create jpegs of max 200kb. The export function sharpens them automatically for the web but sometimes I do it separately then switch off the sharpen box in the export module. How much processing goes on beforehand depends on the image but I shoot in RAW so they usually need a little tweaking but not much. Original files will be 20+mb!!! Let me know if you need more detail.
Andrew
Thanks Andrew. I am still afraid to move out of iPhoto and use Photoshop. I don’t have Lightroom but will look through the photoshop instruction book and see if I am ready to invest some serious time learning to use photoshop.
I just posted Calling All Birders – trying to identify some strange looking water bird we saw in Scotland http://reflectionsinpuddles.com/2013/11/18/calling-all-birders/ If you get a minute maybe you would know. 🙂
Rod, I see Yvonne beat me to it. I agree. Glad to see you finding some exotics in Scotland!
Yes, Yvonne was right on the ball as usual. It was great to see the unexpected.
great picture!
Gorgeous Andrew! What a great expression that little guy has on his face…’what you lookin’ at?’