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Flight Plan

Flamingoes flying in formation over a flock of feeding flamingoes. I usually do not like photographic noise but with low lighting at dusk during a slight drizzle and extremely cloudy grey skies, I was forced to shoot at ISO 1600 with my telephoto lens for high shutter speeds. But it turns out that I love the noise here because it has enhanced this image with an impressionistic quality. This has now become a dreamy, beautiful landscape in pastels, aptly expressing the grace and elegance of the flamingoes like a painting.


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Phil Douglis17-Dec-2005 03:55
This image is a lovely rebuke to those who routinely consider all electronic noise as somehow "wrong" or "bad." In this case, it is wonderful -- it does indeed give the image a texture that takes it beyond reality and into the realm of impression.