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Wednesday - August 8, 2007
Rainbow at the Mall, Part 4
Okay. So, there's no rainbow in the photo. But, it's a continuation of the story that started with the attempt to take a photo of a rainbow. So, the title remains.
![[Purple Martins at the mall]](http://www.joanna.org/photobox/photos/rainbow_over_the_mall_5a.jpeg)
Look at all those birds! That's a decorative structure near the main entrance to the mall. I bet when the architects designed it they never envisioned it playing home to thousands of purple martins. What do you think? I counted about 900 birds in that photo. No really. Using a full-resolution photo and my paintbrush tool in Photoshop, I put a dab of paint on each bird that I could see. After every 10 dots, I'd make a hash mark. And, I ended up with 90 hash marks. Wow.
Here's a close-up:
![[Purple Martins at the mall]](http://www.joanna.org/photobox/photos/rainbow_over_the_mall_5b.jpeg)
Kinda scary, isn't it? The noise was something else. Yikes.
Still more purple martin photos on the way.
Posted by Joanna at 11:30 PM
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