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Female Bluebird, Roger’s Pond Park, Kennebunk Maine<\/p><\/div>
\nA little bit of a bonus on Sunday. \ud83d\ude42 Finishing up a thought from yesterday. This is the image that inspired yesterday’s Day Poem.<\/p>\n

The female Eastern Bluebird is the more
\nsubtle of the sexes (generally true among
\nbirds), not so gaudy blue and rust red as
\nthe male, and in Winter even paler, washed
\nby the cold to match the season. Still, if you
\nlook closely, there is a fascination in the
\nway the bright blue peeks out of the plumage
\non the wings and back, teases the eye, and
\nkeeps you looking. I wonder if it has that same
\neffect on the males come breeding season?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photographically it has an interesting history. I took it at maximum zoom, 600mm equivalent field of view on the Sony Rx10iii. When processing it in Polarr I really like the composition and the feather detail on the bird, but could not crop in enough without loosing too many pixels to get the bird at the scale I wanted. So I saved it, and reopened it in Big Photo, another app for the iPad. Big Photo allows you to resize images up or down, using a variation, I am assuming, of the “genuine fractals” math that produces very satisfying results when you upscale. This is cropped tighter and upscaled to 16 plus megapixels. The result is a “printable” version of the image. It, of course, has been downscaled again for blog and social media display, but I am satisfied with the results. Isn’t technology grand…when it actually works. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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