https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/08/04/murder-on-the-beach-this-time-for-real-glad-that-i-brought-the-1-4x-tc-or-not-and-beach-clean-up/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/08/04/murder-on-the-beach-this-time-for-real-glad-that-i-brought-the-1-4x-tc-or-not-and-beach-clean-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1853816 Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:50:20 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=75559#comment-1853816 The responses to this picture reminds me of a photo opportunity I had on an African safari a few years ago. A Kudu was in a pond surrounded by a number of hyenas. It was wounded and trying to get out of the water. The guys on the trip all wanted to see the hyenas get the kudu. The women wanted to leave and photograph something else.

]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/08/04/murder-on-the-beach-this-time-for-real-glad-that-i-brought-the-1-4x-tc-or-not-and-beach-clean-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1853658 Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:19:30 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=75559#comment-1853658 An in-between solution would be to leave the debris that’s in the same approximate plane as the adult skimmer, getting rid of the OOF crud in the foreground, background, and edges–more realistic look without the stuff that really distracts. Strong image, though conspecific baby-killing may be a tough sell.

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