Talk of The Villages Florida - Small and speedy Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher in flight

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Originally Posted by blueash (Post 2034930)

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

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

Well I agree if you are producing for National Geographic or Google etc. But as an artist one tries to produce something more beautiful than life. If we think of Claude Monet, or Renoir etc or even my mentor, the master painter of Oahu; Mark Brown. There is an element of realism, but it is enhanced to reflect our imagination. I see Ron more an artist than a documentarian. I could be mistaken but could we be allowed visual license as poets are allowed poetic license?