After investing quite a lot of money in camera gear suitable for taking pictures of birds, I’ve been singularly unsuccessful in finding birds to take pictures of. So when I come across a bird, no matter how ordinary, I can’t resist taking a picture of it. Hence this very ordinary picture of a mallard (a common bird around where I live) swimming in the Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon/Samyang AF 24-70 f2.8 FE