Our challenge this week is to share photos with shade and shadows. Normally shade and shadows are a photographer’s worse nightmare but you can get some nice captures with the right timing and positioning.
To make the challenge a little harder I decided to use photos of wood storks only. For those that don’t know, the wood stork is partial to our marshlands and can be found there most of the year. They are very graceful in flight but they have got to be the ugliest bird on this planet.
I‘m not being mean. I’ve heard other photographers say the same thing. From the neck down, they are beautiful but from the neck up, they look like buzzards.
Wood storks are very social birds and often roost together each night. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all get along like the wood storks?
But the more I watch them, the better looking they get. Strange, isn’t it?
The photo below is one of my favorites. It was taken at sunset and the water was a beautiful gold color.
You can find responses from other bloggers here: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/lens-artists-challenge-152-shades-and-shadows/
My newest book Caroline Has a Mole is out, It’s about a little girl with a mole and how she deals with a bully in school. It was written specifically for a friend but could apply to any child being bullied. Here’s a link:
Photography in Pearls 
Their shadows are beautiful…and I love them as storks too! Clever take on.
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Thank you! So glad you liked them.
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congrats on the new book and the bird theme for the shades and shadows theme was delightful
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Thanks! Glad you liked them. And to know I’m not crazy for liking them!
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Lovely, Gina. I see what you mean about the birds. They’re beautiful in all their ugliness!! 😀😀
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So glad to know that I’m not the only one – I’m not crazy after all!
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Interesting selections. ‘A Study in Wood Storks!’
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Sometimes you just really have to step out of the box. Glad you liked these.
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A face that only a mother could love!
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I really enjoyed all your Wood Stork captures but the one with the Roseate Spoonbill is my favorite! We often see them where we live. Around here we say they have a face only a mother can love.
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A very near-sighted mother!
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What a wonderful set.
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Thank you! Glad you liked them.
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A wonderful selection and they look like beautiful birds to me 💛
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Like you Gina I find them quite unattractive when on the ground but they may be the most beautiful when they soar overhead with the silent swoosh of their wings. Lovely images, especially the last.
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Thanks Tina, Loved the subject.
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