Subject: Re: Chestnut-collared Longspur
Date: Dec 5 10:47:32 1995
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Wes Jansen wrote:
I guess it becomes a question of whether a photograph more
> accurately represents a subject than an illustration. Photographs
> actually to me seem to be possibly more subjective because of the
> angle, lighting, and other factors. An illustration can give us a
> "perfect" specimen in that the lighting, position and other factors
> are all ideal.

And longspurs are a particularly troubling group at this time of year to
boot. This is one small group of birds which could use an illustration
page per species. The reds, yellows, and ochre tones in print tend to be
much brighter in the NGS than on the birds at most times of the year,
even in high breeding--the gloss of the pages in the second edition seems
to enhance this, the coca-cola stains on my first edition helped quell
this problem, though the pages are awfully hard to pull apart! :')
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