This duck is native to New Guinea and Australia. When you see them swimming about the white saturates your eyes and they "appear" to be black and white; I figured this would be a good DR test for the 40D camera. Anyway, while looking at the pictures on the monitor I was very surprised to find the dark feathers were actually not black; yet another example of why you can't always trust your eyes.

IMPORTANT, please note ... whenever you visit a Pbase gallery for the first time, or if you have clicked on a size smaller than "original size" while visiting this or any other Pbase gallery, please be sure to click on "original" size, otherwise you will be presented with a low quality JPEG as versus the high quality JPEG (the size doesn't change, only the quality level of the JPEG compression); you only have to do this once, on the very first picture you look at.

Alternatively, on the very first picture you can add "/original" to the URL in the address bar and hit "refresh" or "go" as the case may be; again, you only have to do this once (on the very first picture). This "/original to the URL" approach is the sure-fire/no-mistake/best way to ensure you will see the highest quality JPEG presentation.