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Green-Wing Teal
Green-Wing Teal Anas crecca
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250, f /7.1, ISO 400
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/GreenWingTeaAAP_closeup.jpg)
Green-Wing Teal
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedshoulderHawkPortraitDeckle.jpg)
Red-Shouldered Hawk Portrait
Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250, f /8, ISO 500
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedShoulderedHawkPortraitAAP_closeup.jpg)
Red-Shouldered Hawk Portrait
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedTailedHawkPortrait-web.jpg)
Red-Tailed Hawk Portrait
Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/250, f /5.6, ISO 800
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedTailedHawkPortraitAAPl_closeup.jpg)
Red-Tailed Hawk Portrait
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedShoulderedHawk-deckle-web.jpg)
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Photo-Illustration: Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1600, f /7.1, ISO 250
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedShoulderedHawkAAP_closeup.jpg)
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedTailedHawk.jpg)
Red-Tailed Hawk
Photo-Illustration: Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1600, f /7.1, ISO 250
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/RedTailedHawkAAP_closeup.jpg)
Red-Tailed Hawk
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/LoggerheadShrike_2493-web.jpg)
Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1250, f /8, ISO 400
Location: Morgan Territory Road, Livermore, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken while bird watching with my sister the bird-spotter extraordinaire. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/LoggerheadShrikeAAPl_closeup.jpg)
Loggerhead Shrike
Birds / Photo-Illustration![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/Pintail_9251-web-paper.jpg)
Northern Pintail
Northern Pintail Anas acuta
Photo Details: Canon 6D, 500 f /4 , 1.4 tc, 1/1000, f /7.1, ISO 400
Location: Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
Process: These photographic illustrations begin with a photograph I’ve taken. With careful masking, I remove or minimize the backgrounds to direct focus on the subject or part of the subject. In some pieces, I’ve added a pale wash behind the subject. My desire is to create a finished piece that has a style similar to wildlife illustrations of the 19th and early 20th century.
All photographs and photographic illustrations that have resulted from our joint bird watching excursions are marked with a chop with the initials CL for Sharon Constant & Nancy Laffin.
![](http://www.visibleinkdesign.com/wpdesign/wp-content/uploads/pintail_closeup-150x129.jpg)