Snowy Egret... breeding plumage and color

[Joseph Przybyla]

Image captured at the rookery in the alligator breeding pond at Gatorland, Orlando, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 240mm
1/3200 F/11 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1100 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Full Frame

[Jonathan Ashton]

Just beautiful, super detail lovely pose great colours, unobtrusive background. I also like the iris detail. Well done!
The slight negative head turn is of no consequence for me.

[greg cowle]

Captured at the perfect time, spectacular.

[annmpacheco]

Well done Joe, love the feather plume separation and the green BG, details everywhere!

[Joseph Przybyla]

I did more work on the image. Better?

[Raybel Robles]

Very nice! lovely details on those whites!

[Mike Poole]

Another nice Gatorland image Joe, the RP does improve things a little - worth the effort IMHO

Mike

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.

[John Mack]

Solid portrait of this snowy. The breeding plummage is a plus.