Surreal ducks (1 Viewer)

[Joe A.]

For some reason I like this photo and wondered if I'm alone. It's a digiscoped photo of several ducks -- I believe they're mallards -- searching for food. The strong side lighting and glare from the water, as well as compression from the scope, give the photo a surreal appearance. It's as though the ducks are floundering in muck or swamp scum. The area in which they are swimming is a narrow band of water set between rows of marsh reeds and vegatation.

I have sipped a little cabernet this evening and perhaps the affect has distorted my eyesight.

Any comments?

 

[very boring banned member]

Artistic view it is. Left & right are Anas platyrhynchos, can't be sure of the middle one. As I first glimpsed the photo without reading any texts, it immediately brought chenier marshes to my mind.

 

[Joe A.]

Thanks Karwin, I appreciate you taking time to comment on my photo. The area of the photograph is definitely a marsh, about 5 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, in South Texas. Late afternoon sun. The area had a many Black-Bellied Whistling ducks as well as Mallards. So I think your ID is correct.

Merry Christmas,

Joe

Artistic view it is. Left & right are Anas platyrhynchos, can't be sure of the middle one. As I first glimpsed the photo without reading any texts, it immediately brought chenier marshes to my mind.

 

[Michael Frankis]

I thought a nice pic too.

I lightened it up in photoshop, and from that, the middle bird is a definite female Mallard, flanked by the two drake Mallards.

Michael