As It Happens6:09Canadian photographer captures extraordinary beauty of ordinary pigeons with award-winning shot
Liron Gertsman usually doesn’t bother taking pictures of pigeons.
But when he spotted a pair of them preening each other affectionately in White Rock, B.C. — their iridescent green and purple feathers shimmering in the sunlight — he was moved to take out his camera.
“I definitely overlooked pigeons for a while. But that changed when I captured this picture because I just saw them shining in a new light,” the Vancouver wildlife photographer told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
“When you take a moment to appreciate a bird like that closely,
