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Old 11-29-2021, 07:54 AM
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While that is a beautiful photo, it seems that you may have very significantly altered the color of the bird. There are blue patches in the leaves. I wonder what the bird actually looks like?

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Blue-gray Gnatcatchers are pale blue-gray birds with grayish-white underparts and a mostly black tail with white edges
While an artist, and you are one, is entitled to license in their product, it seems that nature photography ought to depict nature not an altered "improved" version that completely changes the color of the bird
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