An image of a blue indigo bunting perched atop a sunflower stalk in the early morning light at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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There are a few scenes that characterize a summer morning in North Carolina. Blue skies with cotton candy clouds, the melody of countless songbirds filling the air and sunflower fields. This image above was taken on one such summer morning at Dorothea Dix Park.

In the world of optics, there is a concept called complementary colors, which are colors on the opposite side of a color wheel. Blue and Yellow happen to be just those and just as in the world of optics, the Indigo Bunting’s cool colors “complimented” the warm tones amidst a sea of yellow sunflowers that morning.

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Technical Specifications: Nikon D750 with the Nikon 200-500mm lens at 500mm/f 5.6/ 1/640 at ISO 250.