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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Started conversation Nov 10, 2019
FWR:
Almost black and white works well in this one. All about textures and tricking the eye!
The gap in the stonework perfectly fits the shape of the bird. This was either cleverly staged or a lovely quirk of chance, the bird "nesting" looks very natural. Nice artistic imagery.
DG:
We have these artistic choices we can make nowadays, like near-monochrome, or choosing to highlight just one colour. I love to see these tricks taken advantage of!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 10, 2019
Is it a real bird, or a stone one? 
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Nov 14, 2019
Stone the crows!
Slightly off black and white works well here.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 14, 2019
" When Walt Kelly's Pogo and his friends went to the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 they encountered a kangaroo named Basher who was given to saying "stone the crows""
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6300/origin-of-phrase-stone-the-crows
This predates a band named Stone the crows, which was formed in Glasgow in late 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_the_Crows
There's also some evidence that crow-stoning was an actual activity in Australia in the 1800s.
With my tendency to put my 
, I am sure to eat some crow form time to time. 
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