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Montana Mallards

April 4, 2009 by Jason Savage 10 Comments

Mallard Landing.©Jason Savage

Well we’re almost there. Rounding that last corner down the homestretch straight out of winter. It’s so close, but yet so far away….

That’s at least how I felt last Sunday as I was getting pounded by a fierce early spring snowstorm. Boy was that cold!

I was heading to Freezeout Lake last Sunday but due to one nasty storm I didn’t quite make it. The roads and visibility were so bad, getting decent shots of snow geese would have been a pointless venture.

So I decided to pack it up and head back to Helena, where I spent most of the day freezing my butt off to get some shots of some Mallard ducks near town.

Mallard Snowstorm.©Jason Savage

With adverse weather conditions, sometimes it’s much easier to spend the day admiring it from behind a window in your warm home, rather than embracing the drudgery. But with all adversity, there always seems to be a silver lining. Weather included.

I find more often than not that the extreme conditions can not only ad a dramatic mood to your image, but it can offer amazing backdrops and certain elements that you normally would never be able to capture in ideal conditions.

Wigeon Drake.©Jason Savage

With that being said, did I spend all day standing out in a wet heavy snowstorm for some of the aforementioned benefits added to my images. Well, maybe not, but any day out photographing Montana, beats sitting at home watching it out the window.

Filed Under: General Posts Tagged With: Duck, Mallard, Snow, Snowstorm, Winter, Wood Duck

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  1. Carroll B. Merriman says

    January 13, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    I was searching for digital photography tutorials when I found your site. Excellent post. Thank You.

  2. intersect6 says

    February 5, 2010 at 12:30 am

    that would not be a hen wood duck but actually a drake widgeon

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    February 5, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Hey thanks for catching my goof on that one!

  4. Kolombo says

    October 21, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    We have a large duck just arrived on our canal here in Wales with a very neat and tidy crown’ of white feehrats on the back of its head. It might be the result of a wound but it looks too neat. Otherwise it displays some features of a mallard and, I think, a ruddy duck. It is quite unlike anything else we have seen or found in a book. We did have a pair of perfectly black ducks here for a couple of years but they have gone

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