Kudos to the Dreher Zoo for providing what looks like a natural habitat to photograph this macaw, a most colorful and enchanting bird, a pleasure to view. Incredibly, the Macaw poses for this photo less than ten feet away from the camera. Shooting with my 70-200 f/4L was really a case of overpowering my subect. I could easily have moved in closer, perhaps as close as four or five feet. Had I known that, I would have shot this with my Tamron 28-75 or perhaps my Canon 50mm f/1.4. Both of those lenses would have given me far more contrast to help "pop" this wild bird out of the park.

Photo by Michael Weinberg Photography of Clarks Summit and Scranton, Pennsylvania


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