Puffing Up When Courting Metal Print
by Don Mercer
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Puffing Up When Courting metal print by Don Mercer. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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Charles Darwin once called the male magnificent frigate bird (fregata magnificens) the condor of the ocean. When courting a female, the male appears... more
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Charles Darwin once called the male magnificent frigate bird (fregata magnificens) the "condor of the ocean." When courting a female, the male appears to puff out its chest; but the bird is using its gular sac, which is a bright red, when used, and appears as if a balloon was being inflated. After our group landed at Baltra, we were taken by boat for the brief trip to North Seymour Island. We hiked over some of the island, much of the time amongst numerous frigate birds, at times with nests no more than six feet off our trail.
About Don Mercer
Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...
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