{"id":32285,"date":"2016-03-17T03:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=32285"},"modified":"2016-03-16T23:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:11:02","slug":"which-is-uglier-his-wife-in-the-morning-or-a-wood-stork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2016\/03\/17\/which-is-uglier-his-wife-in-the-morning-or-a-wood-stork\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is Uglier? His Wife in the Morning or a Wood Stork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What&#8217;s Up?<\/h3>\n<p>Patrick Sparkman took a few hours off from work this morning to join Bryan Holliday and me at the cliffs in La Jolla. After a slow start we smoked em. I have a private client tomorrow morning; we will be targeting the pelicans&#8211;many still in spectacular breeding plumage&#8211;Brandt&#8217;s Cormorant, and Western and California Gulls. <\/p>\n<p><center><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/servedby.flashtalking.com\/click\/8\/55973;1705289;0;209;0\/?ft_width=728&#038;ft_height=90&#038;url=9277912\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/servedby.flashtalking.com\/imp\/8\/55973;1705289;205;gif;BirdsAsArt;728x90\/?\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/noscript><br \/>\n<script language=\"Javascript1.1\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar ftClick = \"\";\nvar ftExpTrack_1705289 = \"\";\nvar ftX = \"\";\nvar ftY = \"\";\nvar ftZ = \"\";\nvar ftOBA = 1;\nvar ftContent = \"\";\nvar ftCustom = \"\";\nvar ft728x90_OOBclickTrack = \"\";\nvar ftRandom = Math.random()*1000000;\nvar ftBuildTag1 = \"<scr\";\nvar ftBuildTag2 = \"<\/\";\nvar ftClick_1705289 = ftClick;\nif(typeof(ft_referrer)==\"undefined\"){var ft_referrer=(function(){var r=\"\";if(window==top){r=window.location.href;}else{try{r=window.parent.location.href;}catch(e){}r=(r)?r:document.referrer;}while(encodeURIComponent(r).length>1000){r=r.substring(0,r.length-1);}return r;}());}\nvar ftDomain = (window==top)?\"\":(function(){var d=document.referrer,h=(d)?d.match(\"(?::q\/q\/)+([qw-]+(q.[qw-]+)+)(q\/)?\".replace(\/q\/g,decodeURIComponent(\"%\"+\"5C\")))[1]:\"\";return (h&&h!=location.host)?\"&ft_ifb=1&ft_domain=\"+encodeURIComponent(h):\"\";}());\nvar ftTag = ftBuildTag1 + 'ipt language=\"javascript1.1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ';\nftTag += 'src=\"http:\/\/servedby.flashtalking.com\/imp\/8\/55973;1705289;201;js;BirdsAsArt;728x90\/?ftx='+ftX+'&fty='+ftY+'&ftadz='+ftZ+'&ftscw='+ftContent+'&ft_custom='+ftCustom+'&ftOBA='+ftOBA+ftDomain+'&ft_referrer='+encodeURIComponent(ft_referrer)+'&cachebuster='+ftRandom+'\" id=\"ftscript_728x90\" name=\"ftscript_728x90\"';\nftTag += '>' + ftBuildTag2 + 'script>';\ndocument.write(ftTag);\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>The Streak<\/h3>\n<p>Today\u2019s blog post marks 132 days in a row with a new educational blog post. As always&#8211;and folks have been doing a great job recently&#8211;please remember to use our B&#038;H links for your major gear purchases. For best results use one of our many product-specific links; after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. Please remember: web orders only. Please remember that if you are shopping for items that we carry in the BAA Online Store (as noted in red at the close of this post below) that we would appreciate your business \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/what-my-wife-looks-like.jpg\" class='shutterset'><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/what-my-wife-looks-like.jpg\" alt=\"what-my-wife-looks-like\" title=\"what-my-wife-looks-like\" width=800 \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s what my wife looks like when she wakes up in the morning&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>The Gallery Walk<\/h3>\n<p>As noted here previously, on Sunday past, Patrick and Robin Sparkman, Bryan Holliday, David Salem and his friend Glenn Conlan, and Brian Jones and his friend Norm Brown joined me at The Nat (The San Diego Natural History Museum) for a gallery walk. My exhibit, BIRDS AS ART, the Avian Photography of Arthur Morris hangs until mid-April. Even those who had been to the show before were amazed by the beauty of the venue, the Abe Ordover Gallery. Everyone liked the images too, and marveled at the incredible printing job by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fineprintimaging.com\/\">Fine Print Imaging<\/a> of Fort Collins, CO.<\/p>\n<p>David Salem is no slouch as a photographer; he is the first two time winner of BirdPhotographer.Net&#8217;s Image of the Year (IOTY) and the first to be so honored in consecutive years. You can see Dave&#8217;s spectacular 2015 winning image and the other category winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdphotographers.net\/forums\/content.php\/191-BPN-Newsletter-4-29-February-2016\">here<\/a>. And you can see the 2014 winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdphotographers.net\/forums\/content.php\/189-BPN-Newsletter-2-28-February-2015\">here<\/a>. I will be featuring the 2015 winners in a blog post here soon. You can learn more about BPN or join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdphotographers.net\/forums\/content.php\">here<\/a>. In any case, David&#8217;s effusive and insightful comments on my work were greatly appreciated. And they meant a ton coming from such a talented, skilled, and hard-working photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Locals, and those who will be visiting San Diego in the next few weeks, can learn more about the SDNHM gallery exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdnhm.org\/exhibitions\/current-exhibitions\/birds-as-art\/\">here<\/a>. It runs until April 25th. <\/p>\n<p>The gentleman pictured in today&#8217;s lead image kindly stopped to chat with the group when he learned that I was the photographer. Pointing to the Great Egret begging image pictured in Bryan Holliday&#8217;s fine cell phone image above, he cracked everyone up by saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s what my wife looks like when she wakes up in the morning.&#8221;  And to think that his wife was standing right there!<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/covera.jpg\" class='shutterset'><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/covera.jpg\" alt=\"covera\" title=\"covera\" width=550 \/><\/a>    <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2><em>birds as art: The Avian Photography of Arthur Morris\/The Top 100<\/em><br \/>\nThe companion e-book to the solo exhibit at TheNat, San Diego, California<\/h2>\n<p>The new e-book on CD is available for $23 <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=413\">here<\/a>. And it is also available via convenient download for $20 by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=411\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3><em>birds as art: The Avian Photography of Arthur Morris\/The Top 100<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>If you missed the announcement of the new e-book click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2016\/01\/19\/birds-as-art-the-avian-photography-of-arthur-morristhe-top-100-on-cd-or-via-download\/\">here<\/a> for complete info that includes details on getting a signed copy. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/wood-stork-collage.jpg\" class='shutterset'><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/wood-stork-collage.jpg\" alt=\"wood-stork-collage\" title=\"wood-stork-collage\" width=800 \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2><strong>Wood Stork images collage <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Which are your favorites? See mine below. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Are Wood Storks Too Ugly to Photograph?<\/h3>\n<p>At a recent blog post Dave Adler commented: <\/p>\n<p><em>All of your stuff is so consistently amazing that I thought I\u2019d just ask whether you have ever published (or even taken) an image of a Wood Stork. The reason I\u2019m asking is we were in Wakodahatchee (DelRay, Florida) and disappointed to find that practically the whole place has been taken over by these, well, less than impressive birds. Just curious if you have any comments, and thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good friend and multiple IPT veteran Bill Lloyd (who is headed to Namibia with us in a bit) responded:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hmmm&#8230; Wood Storks and spoonbills are on my bucket list. The storks have amazing faces!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And then I wrote, I have published many Wood Stork images both in print and here on the blog. Those include many beautiful ones and many close-ups of their yes, amazing faces. Try doing a search for \u201cWood Stork\u201d in the little white search box on the upper right of each blog post page. You should find a few good ones. LMK what you think.<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 a<\/p>\n<p>To which I add here: To me, Wood Storks are quite impressive. And yes, they are ugly, but they are quite beautiful at the same time. If you can find one in a nice setting or get really close making some wonderful images of them is a snap. The textures and patterns on their faces are incredible. They breed every year at Gatorland in Kissimmee, FL. My very favorite image in the collage above in the tight adult head portrait from Anhinga Trail, the left-most one in the bottom row, the one with the golden tones. 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