No Cheating

My father joked that I “cheated” to get this shot, I say it’s not cheating if you tell your audience how you did it. First I set up the stick near my mom’s feeder, then I set up my camera on a tripod to keep it in exactly the same spot. Next I took several shots just of the stick to build the panorama, then without moving the camera from that same spot, I sat for a couple of hours taking pictures of the chickadees landing on the stick. I picked the very best posses and I blended everything together in photoshop. Is that cheating? I don’t think so, after all each chickadee landed in exactly that spot just not at the same time. I will tell you what it was, it was a lot of work!

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Mom and Dad’s backyard, March 1st, 2013