(Young) Great Blue Heron

[Bill Foxworthy]

Canon 40D, 100-400L @ 400mm
1/500, f/6.3, iso250, partial metering, overcast yesterday 8:37am

[Fabs Forns]

Great portrait, Bill. How big of a crop is this?
I am asking because it looks like an awful lot of depth of field for f/6.3

the soft light makes this very attractive and if it were mine, I'd crop some off the left for a vertical pano look.

[Bill Foxworthy]

Thanks Fabs,
I am not sure how to tell how much crop there is but looking back it is a pretty huge crop!

[Stephen Stephen]

Nice "stare down" image here Bill. I get a little dizzy looking at his/her eyes! ;)

I do like the relatively dark bird against the light BG.

[Bill Foxworthy]

Thanks Stephen, This little bird was a pleasure to digital photograph. Too young to be afraid yet but still enough common sense to be cautious. Thanks for your comment!