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I’ve been evaluating the 30-day trial of Adobe’s Lightroom the past month and as a part of that was reviewing some pictures I took in Wyoming in 2004 and 2005. I knew this Steller’s jay picture wasn’t sharp due to camera shake, but it was sharper than I remembered and works OK at web resolutions. It does show off the the large crest of this beautiful bird and the little blue stripes that run up above the bill.
We also have Steller’s jays here in Oregon, I rarely see them in our neighborhood but they are more common in the forests. I saw a handful when hiking in the Columbia River Gorge last weekend but they were all too far off for pictures. Given how often I see them, I’ve not been too successful photographing jays of any species, either the blue jays from when I lived in the east or the scrub and Steller’s jays of the Northwest.
Tags: birds, Grand Teton National Park, Steller's Jay, Wyoming