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Dutch Safari I

            ► █░▓    SUNSET LANDING

Cormorants occupy the two most remote bald trees in the nature resort De Avelingen. The once huge colony is shrinking by the day since July. Most of the birds are already gone. Their vulture-like silhouettes on thick bare branches do remind me on Africa. 
Captured 9 minutes before the true sunset – but it appears as a real one because behind the trees there is a levee etc. blocking the ideal horizon. In reality, of course, the sun was not banded like the sensor registered it here. 

We humans mostly don't even notice a sunsets or sunrises. Some who do, like myself, keep gazing at it, or at best make some snapshots. But the birds live with it. They get agitated or get on the move. During the sunset or just before or just after, the whole clouds of them sometimes move from day pasture to their "bedroom" designations. Some larger species perform incredible maneuvers at landing, making circles, often in groups, like military jet pilots. It's an incredible scene to witness, just that it is exactly the moment of the day when you begin to miss the light to photograph. At least I do with my MFT-size sensor. 

Olympus E-M1 (vs.1) with Olympus 75-300mm f4.8-6.7 II, aperture wide open at its longest throw (aperture priority), shutter speed 1/320 sec, ISO 200, 💢HDR 2 handheld, overexposed for ⅔ of a stop. Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.0 – again, the sooc jpeg is much sharper. Sharpening eludes me. 👀🆘

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Taken in: Holland / South Holland / Schelluinen (show map)

Taken on: August 18, 2024

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