This is a familiar scene to anyone from the Austin area. Each night, thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from beneath the Congress Avenue bridge downtown. Dozens--sometimes hundreds--of people line up along the bridge at sunset to try catching a glimpse of the spectacle.
Here, I tried to editorially frame the action in a way that tells the human interest angle while still making the bats the immediate focal point. Voters may ding me for the use of color stylization a bit here, but I felt the choice gave the appropriate nod to sunset while making the bats "pop" a little more against the sky. To me, this feels like the sort of headliner picture you might put in an ecology or tourism magazine with a feature story about the Austin bats and their connection to the city.
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