Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Did processing help this image?

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While this is not the iconic picture of these ducks perching on a tree limb, I liked the poses. This was shot in Costa Rica at a hotel near the airport. A small pond in the back of this hotel holds literally 100’s of these ducks. Usually they fly from their roosts in the surrounding trees early in the morning, but some do not leave the grounds. Instead they fly down to the pond and feed there. This image was processed in PS, applying a graduated blur to the background to try to compensate for the relative high POV. Not sure it helped.