This is the real thing -- not a composite image as I did in a previous post using Rick Sammon's urgings to make a picture.In this image I actually shot through the pickets of our deck railing that are spaced 4.5 inches apart.
The photo was shot with the trusty 18-200mm general purpose lens at 200mm (300 mm on a 35 mm film camera).
Note that the bird has a shadow cast onto the birdbath. While it is easy to create a shadow in Photoshop, I have not done this in this photo.
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