{"product_id":"breeding-colors","title":"Breeding Colors","description":"\u003cp\u003eI had never seen a tricolored heron in full breeding plumage at this close range before this morning. The crest was up - those pale gold-and-rust filaments raised into a corona around the head, the blue-gray of the body feathers shot through with iridescence that shifted as the bird moved. It was landing on a branch over a still Lowcountry pond, wings half-open, the whole bird in a state of maximum display. I held still and kept shooting. In years of photographing birds in the Lowcountry, I had not seen anything quite like this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTricolored herons in breeding condition are among the most visually extravagant birds in the Lowcountry - the combination of blue-gray body, reddish-brown and white neck, white belly, and that extraordinary crest places them in a category of visual complexity that most birds don't approach. This particular bird, at this particular moment, in the dappled light of a spring morning over a lily-padded pond, was as fully itself as anything I had ever photographed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreeding Colors is the most colorful and dramatic image in the Lowcountry bird series - a portrait of a species at the height of its annual transformation. The detail in those crest feathers, the sheen of the blue plumage, the red eye: all of it holds at scale on metal in a way that makes the bird fully present in the room rather than reduced to decoration. It is a piece for anyone who has ever stopped at the edge of a marsh and wondered what else was in there, just out of easy sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quigley Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"20x30 \/ Metal","offer_id":43308802637914,"sku":"breeding-colors-20x30","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 \/ Metal","offer_id":43308802670682,"sku":"breeding-colors-24x36","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"32x48 \/ Metal","offer_id":43308802703450,"sku":"breeding-colors-32x48","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40x60 \/ Metal","offer_id":43308802736218,"sku":"breeding-colors-40x60","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/0325\/1546\/files\/QuigleyFineArt_PJQ06131_2_25_353919f4-596d-4510-a917-eff140fee569.jpg?v=1777838240","url":"https:\/\/quigleyfineart.com\/products\/breeding-colors","provider":"Quigley Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}