Ambush for Flamingos MMDT #6

This painting by Catlin George depicts flamingos in abundance in a field.

Ducks

The painting inspired me to go through my town by the beach and lakes where I found ducks in abundance parading across a street and then going back to the lake. There must have been 100 ducks. I did a two-page layout. The scene is at Lake Como in Belmar, NJ. I used page pattern #15 on storm MM grid paper. I accented the page with brown matting.

On the first page the upper left photo was taken just as I drove up and saw all these ducks prancing across a street. The photo on the top right shows them prancing back to the lake and holding up traffic. The bottom right photo is another shot of them going back to the lake. The lower left photo is them back on the grass along side the lake. I filled in the tiles with 1" squares of the water and the ducks swimming in the water. They seemed so carefree. It was beautiful.

The second page of this layout is of the ducks mostly in the water and one shot of them flying. The center shot is of a gazebo nearby.

My favorite part of these photos is the color of the lake. In person it did not look so blue. I think the movement of the water gives the page great shadows and texture.