Great Egret

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image last year at the rookery at Gatorland in Orlando, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 300mm(450mm FFE)
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering -1/3 EV ISO 160 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10, burning and dodging on the chest feathers
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose and detail, Joe.

[keith mitchell]

Joe this really does look good,going to get my book out and look at dodging and burning it certainly as worked well on this.

[Glenn Conlan]

Super image, you nailed the theme

[Glennie Passier]

For me...doesn't get much better. Beautiful!

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.