Brown Pelican In Winter With Mating Plumage

Posted by Peter Wallack on Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:37 am

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Jensens Marina, Captiva Island, Florida

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:52 am

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Wonderful image Peter! Congrats!!

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by Alan Murphy on Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:30 am

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A little contrasty but a pleasing image Peter.

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by AForns on Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:40 am

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Handsome Pelican (one of the nicer looking) really like the eye Congratulations

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by E.J. Peiker on Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:06 am

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Its always interesting to see how different the Atlantic race is form the Pacific race - nice shot.

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by Sandy Mossberg on Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:31 am

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Excellent shot, Peter. The framing and BG are well done.

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by Bob Ettinger on Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:35 am

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Very nice image. Clean and simple.

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by Neil Solomon on Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:02 am

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What I really like about this image is the green BG. Out here on the La Jolla Cliffs a green BG just isn't possible and it's a color that seems to work very well with the Pelicans.

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by AlexC on Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:18 pm

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I, agree , excellent pose and BG, good colors as well, whites to the edge but not bad, very nice, indeed!! Congrats!!

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by Jim Urbach on Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:05 pm

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PEter,

Excellent image of our brown pelican in breeding plummage, but the colors pale in comparison with those on the pacific coast.

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by Peter Wallack on Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:36 am

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I would love to photograph the Pacific Coast Brown Pelican on day and probaly will but I was glad to get my Florida version looking as good as he gets.

Here is another version of the image where I lasso the 1/3 inch by 1/2 inch white that was on edge. Then I went to SELECT-FEATHER 5/ IMAGE-ADJUST- BRIGHTNESS -15%/ DESELECT.