Snowy Egret Fishing

[Kurt Bowman]

Snowy Egret, Gilbert, AZ
Sony a9ii, 200-600mm with 1.4 TC, 1/5000 at f/9, ISO 800

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Welcome to BPN, Kurt. Excellent fishing capture. Like the wing positions, feet opened ready for the catch, and the intense gaze at the prey.


Geoffrey




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[Jack Backs]

Nice action shot. Like most everything about other than the head being slightly angled away.

[dankearl]

Focus hit the feet which are great... I would try to sharpen the head a bit more.
Whites are right on the edge.

[Brian Sump]

Kurt, pretty landing pose here. I actually like the specular highlights in the deep blues at the water.

Agree with Jack on head angle, that's the main issue here for me. Wish the eye/head were a tad more in focus as well as Dan mentioned.

TFS.

[Arthur Morris]

All good stuff above, esp. with regards to the bird angling slightly away from you, most likely due to the wind direction. In a perfect world, the near underwing would have been fully raised and thus fully lit. The pose is quite wicked.

with love, artie