Snowy Egret with fish

[Glenn Price]

http://raptorcaptor.smugmug.com/photos/445586465_vErSz-L.jpg

I took this photo at Bolsa Chica using a Canon 1-D MK IIn, 500F4 with a 1.4TC, Flash with Better beamer on a tripod.

Aperture priority, ISO 320, 1/125 sec at F5.6 Exposure compensation -1 1/3

[Tony Whitehead]

Good catch! Love the ripples below the beak. A step to the left to give a pure lack BG may have been an option - I find the vertical division of the image by the BG distracting. Good option to use the flash - pity it didn't create a catchlight in the eye.