I Really Like Our House Finches

I didn't take a lot of photographs last May 5, but I spent half of an hour in Photoshop Elements trying to make a couple goldfinch shots into something they weren't. Then I worked for a while on another photo of this bird. Eventually I figured out that wasn't working, and went with the best shot in the set.

And here it is again, in color. Despite my efforts to displace it, this is one of my favorites from last year's project.

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I notice windsordi asked why I decolorized this one. The fact is that I like the monochrome version better, regardless of "policy" issues. YMMV, of course.

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This photograph is an outtake--well, actually it's a different version of the photo I posted a year ago--from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 11
Title of "roll:" Birds
Other photos taken on 5/5/2012: A few hours later I was (again) trying to photograph a white-crowned sparrow. And the late-in-the-day flower census didn't find any new developments in the garden beds.