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Mmm, if you looked at the top image and went, that’s not a heron, well done!

I think the shot below is perhaps the best photograph I’ve taken in a long time. As I walked up from the reed beds that line the edge of the River Severn I spooked this heron, and it flew away towards the field margin and landed in a tree. The curve of the branch is almost perfect, and the pastel bokeh in the background adds an unexpected bloom of colour – I think it’s probably the tile roof of a farm house.

Like the courting pigeons in the top shot, a spontaneous grab in the hope the camera settings were not too far from reasonable. You can do a lot in post processing, but it’s not proper magic, as the pigeons clesarly prove. For proper magic it seems you now simply pull up an AI process… I wonder if real photography will die, along with writing editorials, preparing basic legal documents and judgements and, soon, medical diagnoses… all hail our machine overlords.