Living with the Willets

[Blake Shadle]

Here's another image that I made this past Saturday evening out at Ft. Desoto. After you spend enough time down low with these little guys they accept you as a part of their environment and carry out their busy like you don't exist. I love every minute of it.

Shooting Solution
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 500 f/4.5
Manual exposure, 1/640 @ f/8, ISO 400
Manual focus, lens foot and chin in the sand ;)
Almost full frame, cropped because of rotation

Thanks for looking!

Comments welcomed and much appreciated :)

[Todd Frost]

Another sweet one Blake. Love the low angle and soft back and foreground. Love that light with the sand adding fill naturally.

Todd

[Dave Phillips]

nice nice nice....wanna come here and lay in mud, muck, slime and snakes?
I do it very cautiously.

The muted tones are wonderful Blake......awesome

[Bill Foxworthy]

I know you were low Blake. Love it!!!!

[Bill Foxworthy]

Hey Dave, when you come, watch the Alligators too, if you get near fresh water :) :)

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love this Blake. Great soft lighting and wonderful low angle and BG. Fine capture !!!!

[Marko Matesic]

Great angle and colors!

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Nice image Blake! The low angle makes it for me. You are lucky to live among them :)
Szimi

[Harold Davis]

beauty blake!! love everything about it.

[Maxis Gamez]

Hey Blake,

Love the feeling on this one man.... I think the FG is too big in the frame but at the same time because that's the way the bird is looking to it works.