You can buy 1-Terabyte disks for $79, or 40-inch TVs for $500, or you can pretend the air isn’t a wet grey mass and head for a wintry beach.
This is color photography, it’s just that there weren’t many. I tried them in B&W, but preferred the ghostly tints to the hard monochrome.
There may not be colors, but there are birds. Every shot here has ’em, you just have to look a bit.
Such a cliché, but I love ’em.
On this day, the waterfowl were mostly these snappy 2-tone models; someone reading this will doubtless know what they are, but I am not gonna get on birding’s slippery slope, thank you; I have enough hobbies already that involve obsessive behavior. But they’re loveable.
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They were doing well, spending as much time underwater as on top, and munching visibly after they bobbed up. Boxing-Day sale for ducks?
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From: Justin Watt (Dec 28 2009, at 08:05)
Wait, which one is the cliche? These are great. I quite like the second photo. It's printworthy. How much for a genuine "Tim Bray"?
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From: Penny Chase (Dec 28 2009, at 11:49)
They are a male and female Barrow's Goldeneye. Nice photo!
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From: kjw (Dec 28 2009, at 12:10)
The ducks are Barrows goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica). The male is the one with the white crescent on his cheek. Great shot!
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From: Roland Tanglao (Dec 28 2009, at 20:17)
we went Cross Country Skiing at Cypress and escaped into the glorious mountain sunshine. highly recommended (there's no snow shoeing and tobogganing if you for some strange reason :-) don't like cross country)
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