A small snow storm moved through Northern New York on the 22nd dropping about 3 inches of snow and canceling school on the last school day of the year. We took advantage of the day-off by catching an afternoon screen of the Star Wars The Last Jedi with the kids. After arriving home, I shoveled the drive way and thankfully because over night we received about 1/8" of ice. 

While eating breakfast today, a large group of Northern Cardinals visited the feeder and I was able to grab the camera and capture a number of images of the cardinals in the ice-covered Butterfly bush next to the feeder. These photos were all shot with the Canon 7D Mark II and the Canon EF 100-400MM F/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens handheld. Most of the images were processed in Photoshop CC with Luminar for exposure and color correction, while I used Photoshop layers for noise, sharpening, and a bit of dodge and burn.

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