ducks

The building where they show the bunnies and chickens is a square, with an open-to-the-sky courtyard. There is a pond in the courtyard, and lots of ducks and geese were in and around the pond. Lots of different kinds of ducks and geese. There were runner ducks, which I'm not sure I've ever seen in person before (and which are the ducks that people buy for their herding dogs to practice on). Runner ducks are very upright (as one might guess, from their name), and they are very thin. If you don't know, you might think there is something wrong with them, as they look so different from these rounder, more horizontally oriented ducks. (I failed to get a decent pic of any of the runners.)

These ducks are the most colorful critters I got pics of at the State Fair. I'd never seen a green bill before!













I had never seen a black duck either, let alone a black duck with all this oil-slick-rainbow color.






















I am not a journalist.

I have made a conscious decision that my pictures are not about, shall we say, a photographic realism. If there is something in my image that I find distracting, like 11 tons of goose excrement, well, I'll remove if I want. We can focus on my intended points of interest better without it, and aside from the departure from unadulterated realism, I can't think of any downside from there being less goose excrement in the world, or in my pics.