Contrary to what it looks like, these two are not dancing:
Instead, I was out early one morning taking pictures of birds. I couldn’t get anything better than a butt picture. I would walk towards the birds, hoping they would fly off left or right. But nooooooooooooooooo! They turn around and take off directly away from me, providing me with great pictures of bird butts.
Solution? A young kid and his mom were also walking around the lake. I talked to mom and asked if it was okay if said kid walked around behind the birds and then kind of walked the birds towards me. Kid was happy as a lark, so to speak. I gave mom $5 for said kid’s manual labor. Hmmm. Wait! $5 for 10 minutes. Wow! I’m in the wrong profession!
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Now that was a good plan… I’ve also got a lot of bird photos of butts and nothing else… will have to find me one of those expensive labourers to assit me to get a great shot like this… love it…
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Remember to pay employment taxes……… lol
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Lucky kid! You got your delightful photo and we all got to se it. Winners all round! 🙂
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That’s a great photo. So I have plenty of pictures of dog butts. It seems that they are all camera shy. I would be playing with them and everything’s fine and then, I flash my camera, and suddenly, the dog would turn around. Lol.
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That is one amazing picture and an even better story!
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Stunning shot and worth the vast expense 🙂 Don’t suppose that kid will find too many people like you around each morning though 😦
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Lovely shot.
(at that rate of pay, I might jump on a plane and come over to work for you – that sounds like an easy way to make some pocket money).
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The line is growing fast. Want me to save you a spot? lol
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Great photo. That kid sure earned his $5. 😉
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Quick thinking to do that… I will try to remember that with the bigger birds!
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How old was this kid? I’m thinking an ice cream cone would have worked, and would have been cheaper. Or would it? Been a long time since I’ve bought one.
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What? You think I carry ice cream and cones around with me at 7:00 a.m.? lol
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Come on! This is not Swan Lake? Ah, no. I guess not. This shot is evey bit worth the 5 bucks.
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Looks like their mating dance, though.
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i have a lot of bird butt shots too! Closely followed by photos I mentally label “There was a bird there – I swear!”
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Great photo! It’s funny all the tricks you learn when you try to photo wild things. That one was very clever. 🙂 My brother and I have a joke about duck butts as one of his photo site followers complemented his duck photos and said all they ever get is duck butts. Sometimes when we go birding/on photo shoots we split up for awhile. When we reconnect, we check in on what we got. if one of our timings was off that day it goes, ‘How’d ya do?’ ‘Duck butts’. *Shared uproarious laugher* 🙂
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The one on the left looks like it got in a fight with a cotton ball and lost.
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HAHA They do look like their dancing lol!
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