Hunting

[Frank Schauf]

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
San Carlos Bay/Bunche Beach Preserve - Fort Myers/Florida

Canon EOS-1D X, Canon EF600mm f/4L IS II USM, ƒ/4.5, 1/400s, ISO 800

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[Wilhelm Waltermann]

Hallo Frank,
colors, design and technical quality make this photo to a very good working. congrats!

VG, Wilhelm

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose with the raised foot, Frank.

[annmpacheco]

nice colors and clarity, wish you had more ss to freeze the foot as it is oof... great breeding colors on the tri colored.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful shot, Frank. Great stalking pose,nice detail (although I agree it would have been even better with a bit more ss for the foot). Beautiful Bunche Beach background. I'm torn about the comp: not sure the reflection is worth the large amount of empty space at the bottom. I could imagine a crop from below. But a handsome image as posted.

[Adhika Lie]

I agree with Bill. The reflection doesn't have enough form to actually make it work, I think I would prefer to crop most of the bottom and make it tighter in the vertical direction. But this is such an awesome shot though. Is that the breeding plumage for this heron?

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the low angle and sharp details, I agree about ss. you could have easily raised the ISO to gain ss to get the rising foot sharper. I also wish there was more of that green stuff behind the bird and in front of him

TFS