Male Cardinal in winter white scene - would make beautiful pillow Metal Print

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Note - there is a similar shot of FEMALE facing left (also square format) which would make an ideal mating image to pair this with (like on pillows, for instance).
This was shot THROUGH the double pane of my sliding glass door with 600mm lens (throughglass because they'd fly whenever I tried opening it). The cardinals were partaking in some fish skin that I tossed after grilling and it stuck accidentally on a tree branch! I was shooting at angle which put snow/ground behind them, which really isolated them nicely, I thought.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...