The Choir Director

by Brian Tada

Title

The Choir Director

Artist

Brian Tada

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photograph

Description

A female mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) dries off after a bath, her magnificent wings raised in praise to the Creator ~ a dress rehearsal for that Great Day when "every living being joined the angelic choir. Every creature in heaven and on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and everything in them, were worshiping with one voice, saying: ‘Praise, honor, glory, and dominion be to God-Enthroned and to Christ the Lamb forever and ever!’”
~ Revelation 5:13, The Passion Translation (TPT)

This photo was taken after a ten-minute wait in a frigid blustery wind along Richardson Bay near Mill Valley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I felt a Holy Spirit nudge to stay with this bird using my telephoto lens to keep back 40 feet away. Suddenly, the mallard dipped quickly in the bay waters and erupted in a lively wing flap, captured here for your viewing enjoyment.


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This inspirational nature portrait is available as a greeting card ~ although the aspect ratio would look particularly beautiful as a print (framed or unframed).

Please see the ordering options on this page. Thirty-day money-back guarantee on the purchase price. Worldwide shipping available. Thank you for your patronage and support. Please help spread the word to your friends, which would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much. God bless you!


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Grateful to God and thankful to the group administrator(s) for featuring "The Choir Director" on the home pages of the Fine Art America group(s) ::

* WILD BIRDS OF THE WORLD ~ A NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP, 06.11.20
* DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS ONLY, 07.25.20
* 100 FAVORITE, 07.03.22
* WISCONSIN FLOWERS AND SCENERY, 01.22.24


Special Recognitions:

01.22.24 :: Selected as one of the "Best of the Best" Special Features on the homepage of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Group. Thank you to group host Mr. Randy Rosenberger for this honor. To GOD the Creator be the glory and praise!

06.11.20 :: Selected as one of "Dawn's Delights" of the week by group host, Dawn Currie, Wild Birds of the World. Thank you, Dawn, for this honor! God bless you! And, Congratulations to the other artists who received this award!


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Artwork notes:

Embedded in the top right-hand corner is the Hebrew acronym for "B'ezras Hashem" [ב ס " ד] meaning "with God's help". It is a reminder to me as an artist and photographer of my dependence on the Almighty, the Originator of all creativity. This is a similar acknowledgement used by great artists like Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel who signed their work with the Latin phrase, "Soli Deo gloria" which means, "Glory to God alone".

Scripture quotations marked TPT are from The Passion Translation®. Copyright © 2017, 2018 by Passion & Fire Ministries, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ThePassionTranslation.com.

Photo and description text copyright © 2020 Brian Tada. To the glory of God. All rights reserved. Downloading, distributing, displaying online and/or altering this image is prohibited.

Thank you for visiting my gallery! As this is part of my livelihood, your purchase would be appreciated to help support my work in fine art wildlife photography. Thank you very much. God bless you.

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June 8th, 2020

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