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Duck-egg Blue:
I once did a picture for a story that I had suggested on an animal trainer whose specialty was dogs. I shot pictures of his well-trained dogs diving through the air, landing in the water, and retrieving a tame, but very cocky wild duck that was wearing a khaki protective sweater. Afterwards, driving through traffic, it occurred to me that I had done the wrong story. I turned around and reshot the story from the point of view of the duck. The duck's name was Melvin and the story turned out to be the story of Melvin, the Dog-Training Duck.HARLEQUIN DUCK, har'li-kwan, a small, heavy-bodied sea duck with a short neck and a large head. Its name is derived from the male's coloring: his head and body are deep purple-blue with conspicuous white marks on the face and body emphasized by black outlines, while the sides are reddish. The female is a sepia color and has indistinct white facial markings. Some zoologists recognize two subspecies of harlequin ducks, based on slight color differences and separate ranges: the eastern subspecies breeds in northeastern Arctic North America, Greenland, and Iceland, while the western subspecies nests in northwestern North America and northeastern Russia.
There is lots of colour in this room, but it's muted and gentle and adds personality to the space. A soft green on the units is teamed with chalky white walls and open shelves in duck-egg blue. These tones are livened up with flashes of shiny chrome and bold, stripy fabric on the Blind and chairs.
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