Evening Avian Meeting

There's so many variables in photography... I often struggle with knowing the right choice in foreground / background focus. In this case, I intentionally let the background be more blurry than I'd normally like, because the leaf cover was kind of swampy looking in general - I wanted to keep that more abstract. Plus, it ended up allowing the swarms of bugs to show up, where I think they would have otherwise gotten lost in the pixels. The main thing I liked about this though was that there's three kids of birds all hanging out like they're having a union meeting. They're usually a bit more territorial than this. I also liked that they were sitting right on the border of the setting sun and the shadow - I like the layered effect that results. 

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