Great Blue Heron

[John Mack]

This image was created at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Tyre, New York on 4/20/18 at 11:24AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 800
f6.3
1/1250sec

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice pose and HA, typical for a GBH, I like the environment but the man-made stuff in the BG (houses?) not so much, you can eliminate those by a combination of cropping tighter and some blending in PS

TFS

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

I love the pose and its alert posture John. The surroundings complement it quite well.

[Arthur Morris]

Nice bird and muskrat house (??) It would be easy to lose the human houses in the BKGR with Content Aware Fill and some Gaussian blurring.

with love, artie

[Joseph Przybyla]

Yes to all the suggested improvements. Beautiful Great Blue Heron nicely shown. Thank you for sharing, John.

[annmpacheco]

Hi John, I agree with the above suggestions and really like the habitat. GBH has a pleasing HA. I like the muted colors and maybe clone out the gray blurred ?bird? above the back of the heron. TFS

[William Dickson]

Oh how I wish those buildings were not there. apart from that, a nice looking frame

Will

[John Mack]

Thank you everybody. That is a muskrat house and a farm in the background.