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Green-Wing Teal

Green-Wing Teal Anas crecca

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250, f /7.1, ISO 400
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Green-Wing Teal

Red-Shouldered Hawk Portrait

Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250,/8, ISO 500
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Red-Shouldered Hawk Portrait

Red-Tailed Hawk Portrait

Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/250, f /5.6, ISO 800
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Red-Tailed Hawk Portrait

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Photo-Illustration: Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1600, /7.1, ISO 250
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Red-Tailed Hawk

Photo-Illustration: Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1600, f /7.1, ISO 250
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Red-Tailed Hawk

Loggerhead Shrike

Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250, /8, ISO 400
Location: Morgan Territory Road, Livermore, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

 

Loggerhead Shrike

Northern Pintail

Northern Pintail Anas acuta

Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1000, f /7.1, ISO 400
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA

Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.

All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.

Northern Pintail