Orange and Green

Hi again.
Two entries in a day but i guess that its because I am starting and my fingers itch to write.

I work with an animal food products business taking photography and so I have to travel everyday outside the city to the farms and production sites. Since I live in a part of my country that is known as a door to all the farmlands and wildlife I get to see some really cool stuff like animals and plants, like these birds for example (i have no idea how are they called, to be honest)

They make a really weird noise when they call each other, like one of a car horn but with a very high pitch. They are easily scared though and I din't had a Tele lens in order to take a better picture so please pardon that pic.

I also took this one of a bonfire the workers were doing to get rid of some tree branches and i managed to take a nice one.

Again, i miss the lack of a Tele lens. If i went closer i would have been burnt by the sparks (actually one of them managed to leap onto my t-shirt and made a nice circle on it...)

You guys must be wondering why am I posting all of this.
I wanted to share these pics with you because of the contrast in colors that can be found on nature. from the subtle tones of those birds that almost made them melt with the ground to the high contrast of the fire and the trees and grass behind and around it.

What do you guys think of those? when painting stuff (canvas, miniatures, etc), which one do you preffer?