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The Full Monty Art Print
by Don Mercer
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The Full Monty art print by Don Mercer. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The vermillion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is a small, but beautiful bird. This male, with its bright vermillion coloration, was a real... more
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Artist's Description
The vermillion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is a small, but beautiful bird. This male, with its bright vermillion coloration, was a real challenge to shoot, even using a Nikon 200-500mm lens that I had borrowed from a friend and fellow photographer who was on a trip with four of us shooting in the panhandle of Florida in February 2016. This image was captured at ISO 2500, f/6.3, and 1/2500 second using a Nikon D7100. One of the photographers on our trip recommended his version of photographic "trap shooting" for this small bird due to its selecting a number of perches in an area, with its habit every few minutes of launching to catch its meal and then returning to one of several trees from time to time. The idea is to set up on a tripod and manually focus on one of the limbs that the flycatcher frequents. Once you determine that the bird is heading to that branch, you begin firing the shutter release in quick bursts in hopes that an image or two may be acceptable. Of course,...
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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Danielle White
Great shot