Rob

I don't mind working from a photo. Spotting warblers is bad enough, asking them to sit and pose is funny. I know there are things that you can miss from working from a photo, however, so some of the things I would be interested in from the perspective of looking at a bird are lost when working with a photo. The way the feather collect on the back for example can be represented with light/dark but I'd like to understand how they actually work mechanically- you can't observe that with a snapshot. I notice the drip the bird has on the branch and would like to understand that a little better- again it's not really observable from the photo.