Shoebill at the zoo...bill

[gwbarn]

Pretend I was in Ghana with this bad boy:

You have to see this bird from multiple angles to get the full experience. A stare from the front, but a bit silly from every other angle. Her beak did look a bit rough on the day.
The zoo also had servals, grey wolves, fennec foxes, margays, caracals… to name but a few.

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Other image raw as requested:

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is my very vanilla edit of your image. Nothing fancy done here. DT5.6 AgX
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[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

A brighter day for the Bill.

[SCHA (Stuart)]

Such diversity in our animal kingdom… as well as in our processing in photography…

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[mino]

Especially love the lower right one !

[Jetze]

Lovely creature,
Gradient-ed background blur, post a bit darker, further nothing special.
Accidentally found out how to make grid

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[gwbarn]

My only raw without ‘tree in head’ has a big cast shadow from her beak instead

[Jetze]

Would not mind to playfully mitigate this shadow a bit…

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

@lylejk better than my vanilla edit

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

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[gwbarn]

And it’s a good reaction image

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Will add the link to first post as well.

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

Really nice shadows!

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[dqpcoxeas]

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[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Appreciate the words, Terry. I just wish I would have pushed more to an illustration. I did actually do so after the fact, but decided not to take too much storage space here at PixLS. lol

[Jetze]

@lylejk

but decided not to take too much storage space here at PixLS

Now you’ve effectively managed to raise my curiosity!

[Jetze]

Nice, cropped, removed pole, a bit of work on the eye, background blur and some general things. Tiny frame line is in the bird’s eye’s color.

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[Zbyma72age]

RT and GIMP

and

[Attila_Low]

Darktable-spektrafilm

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[Popanz (Uli)]

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[LaurentFromSF (Laurent)]

This animal is almost as scary as the Trumpus Whitehousis Sp.