The Grimace

[Marina Scarr]

This Reddish Egret surprised me by landing right in front of me while I was on my belly in the sand photographing shorebirds. I quickly released my camera from the tripod, sat up and began photographing this RE but I had too much lens. I added a little canvas on the bottom with QM and cropped to vertical.

Canon 1D3, Canon 400DO & 1.4 @ 560mm
F8, 1/1600sec, ISO 500 manual mode
Handheld sitting in the sand

Your C & C are much welcomed and appreciated.

Marina Scarr
www.marinascarrphotography.com (http://www.marinascarrphotography.com)

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent pose and details Marina!

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Superb Marina, love the detail, blue BG and sharpness.

[Sid Garige]

fantastic details Marina.

[Grace Scalzo]

Excellent, Marina. Quick thinking by you resulted in a wonderful portrait. The colors are beautiful.

[noelle zaleski]

Yup..... details are beautiful on this one :S3:

[Chad Caswell]

Beautiful portrait :S3: If I printed this I would add more on the left edge to avoid cutting off the head feathers.

[Morkel Erasmus]

what a lovely mug-shot Marina! gorgeous details and colours

[Troy Lim]

Great details!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Can't think of a single thing that could made this better. Good job on adding the canvas and capturing the grimace.

[stuart wanuck]

hey marina nice capture

[Harshad Barve]

Spectacular image Marina , liked everything about this
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Tack, tack sharp Marina, and you have brought out the detail and colours exceptionally well. Congrats on a fine image.

[Mark Itol]

Sharp and with great colors. I like the framing and the blue BG, too.

[Craig Brelsford]

You rose to the occasion both in the field and in the darkroom. I like every decision you made.

[Adams Serra]

Nice portrait with beautiful colors and feather detail.
Congratulations Marina!

[Robert Holguin]

Wow!!! Beautiful image. Love everything about it. From the great detail to the wonderful background. Very well done.