I must give my wife, Mary, a little credit, though. She gave me this abandoned 1942 Ford Dump Truck for a gift a few Christmases ago. Then, she recently gave me the metal rooster sculpture. And when she saw a real live rooster atop a truck at a neighbor's ranch the other day, she said: "Hey, Kerry, you can do that with your rooster on your old truck!"

Well, perhaps I should give Mary more than a "little credit" here - after all, her props, her idea :-) LOL !!

Thanks again for the nice words, Debby, and again, great hearing from you.
Kerry

P.S. This was a fun shot to do with my wide-angle. However, I first tried shooting this scene from a distance with a telephoto. And while I could get the front of the truck and the rooster to fit nicely within the frame, the background was just too distracting ... lots of things competing with my subjects and the lower part of the sky was a pale blue.

Let me provide a few more details on this shot. I have a single guiding principle in my nature photography - to always "look for the light." The sunset light had played on this pot of flowers on my deck for a few minutes. I was looking for a good backlit shot when I realized that the sun was filling the center of the flower with light. I knew that this light was as magical as it was fleeting. I fired off several shots between f/2.8 and f/8. This is the shot that I liked best because of the shallow depth of field and the lovely bokeh. Later, in Photoshop, I burned in the edges a bit to tone down surrounding highlights. This is still one of my favorite images because of the magical light. Light like this is a gift that doesn't happen very often.
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