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Blue Winged Teal

Blue Winged Teal

I arrived at the Preserve expecting to take a picture of a duck I have never seen before in the water. I thought that would it for the day but an hour and a ha...
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I arrived at the Preserve expecting to take a picture of a duck I have never seen before in the water. I thought that would it for the day but an hour and a half later, this happened!!!
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Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

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settings

Aperture f/8 ISO 1600 Shutter 1/3200 Focal Length 560/1

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location

Galt, California, US

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upload_date

Jan, 2020

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