There were, in fact, two crows at the Arch Rock overlook in Point Reyes National Seashore. (Actually they looked suspiciously similar to the two crows I saw at Dantes View in Death Valley, maybe 10-15 years ago.)
I had hiked to the viewpoint with Hali and Margaret. I was expecting intense sunlight bouncing off the ocean, so it was gratifying to find winter fog blurring the horizon and shrouding the sun. And, of course, the two crows.
Naturally I tried to take some photos. Got one crow in one wide-angle shot, then the other as a telephoto close-up. You will have to take my word for it that the shots were of two separate crows.
It’s been my experience that it is easier to take things out of digital files (telephone poles, unwanted bystanders, etc.) than to add things in. But in this case combining both pix was fairly straightforward since the lighting for both was the same.
Some say that when this is done that the end result should be labeled as a "photo-illustration." Don’t think I’ll be doing that.
Photos: Crows—Point Reyes, 2008; Crow 1—Point Reyes, 2008; Crow 2—Point Reyes, 2008
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YEAH - you posted ! and you are still experimenting with your shots ------ as if after all these years you wouldn't be......
How gratifying to be recognized in one's own time!
Great achievement, almost god-like (says the atheist). Good work.
And Mike said: Let there be a Report: and there was a Report.
And Mike saw the Report, that it was good: and Mike divided the Report into Labels.
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