These cute little quails run around everywhere in the Arizona desert. This photo is a composite of two shots taken in opposite directions on a mountaintop in the Phoenix area. The first was a shot of a quail in someone's front yard, taken with a Canon EOS 10D, 75 - 300 mm IS USM lens at 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec. Elements of that shot were silhouetted and superimposed over a shot in the other direction of the sunset, taken with the same camera and lens at 300 mm, f/11, 1/1250 sec. (Click here to learn more and to see "before" and "after" shots.)

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