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23rd December 2010
DPNow.com Picture of the Day, Thursday - 23rd December 2010
by Ian Burley

Gull Resting & Getting a Heat, by himmelblau

Click image to see this photo in Brian's gallery.

himmelblau (real name: Brian) first posted this shot nearly four years ago. I have returned to this picture because I think the subject is great; the pristine gull, hilariously roosting on top of a chimney and benefiting from some very central heating! Yes, OK, there are some technical issues - it's soft and there is an area of burned out highlights, but set those aside and you still have an interesting and amusing picture. Brian says he used a Canon EOS-400D with a Canon EF 90-300mm lens (non-USM, and cropped and leveled the image in Photoshop.

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