Stumbling on bird photography quite haphazardly after suffering a debilitating injury, Wisconsinite Andy Raupp was afforded a chance to immortalize an avian spectacle—recently capturing on camera a pair of female cardinals in a midair duel.
One snowy day last January, Raupp, 28, was all set up in silent mode for wildlife shooting, in his photo blind in his backyard, and was getting some nice shots of a female cardinal on a cedar branch—shocks of muted rose pastels of the bird’s beak and wings contrasting elegantly with the cool grays and dark greens of the overcast winter scenery.
