Green Heron.

[Karl Egressy]

This is a location that I frequent in hope of finding Green Herons and Black-crowned Night Herons.
Light direction is never ideal, but I have the bird and that's what counts.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 5DM
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS II. +1.4 III.
ISO 500
f7.1
1/500 s.
Tripod.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Nice feather detail & sharpness on the face & body, Karl. Nice BG too. These birds know what we want in terms of light and they will hardly ever give us the best positions! :w3

[Morkel Erasmus]

Loving the colour tones here, Karl. Light looks quite fine here, do you mean the pure golden light is never on them in this location?

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image, Karl. Very nice pose and composition with nice habitat. Beautiful colors and great details in feathers. Love the eye and stare.

Regards,
Satish.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, great fishing pose, and lots of detail showing up. I really like the colours on this fellow, and nicely separated from the BG.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Karl nice pose of the bird on a pleasing perch .Lovely colors and comp. Good detail and overall tone /contrast.
Only suggestion would be , reduce the contrast in the BKG for a large amount and you have the subject standing out even more .

TFS Andreas

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like the pose and perch. Light looks very good and angled well so that spot of yours looks like it can yield some good stuff:c3:. Minor tweaks, if mine, would be to fill in the upper right black areas, tone down the legs, and try to blend in the yellowish area above the bill. All else looks great, and I like the low angle you got here. I also appreciate that you kept a layer of water along the bottom edge.

[Tom van den Brandt]

Nice pose and lots of detail on the bird Karl. Further I can find myself in Daniels comments.

Tom

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Karl. I like the raised crest, perch, setting and composition. Good suggestions above.

[Karl Egressy]

Thank you all.
I did the suggested changes. It does look better.

[David Salem]

Great looking frame Karl. You sure had a good Heron season. Love the pose and the eye contact. Techs look great too. The re-post looks better. Well done