My archiving project continues, and I've worked back to 2013. This juvenile bald eagle image from January of that year has a lot of foreground clutter, so I know why I left it out when I originally processed this batch. But the subject is in sharp focus and his bloody victim is 90% visible, so now it is available on my web site. Some might say, "Why don't you Photoshop out the clutter?" The simple answer is "I don't do that." "Often." On an image like this it would take forever, and I have dozens of other images that would not require so much processing. On rare occasions, I do take out a small branch at the edge of an image, or I extend blue sky on a flying bird that isn't framed well. But usually I'm just adjusting for color and exposure, and applying some light sharpening, which is what I did on this image. Click on the image to load the Mississippi River Eagles page from 2013.

The next one is an ibis from my trip to Florida, also in January. This image needed some cropping to eliminate a big blurry leaf just behind the ibis. The next image in the sequence which I posted 10 years ago has some blurred foreground clutter, which this one does not. Click on the image to load the Florida 2013 page.

Clutter is a battle. Sometimes you can crop it out, and sometimes you just ignore it.