Great Blue Heron

This image was created at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Tyre, New York on 4/20/18 at 11:24AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 800
f6.3
1/1250sec

Nice pose and HA, typical for a GBH, I like the environment but the man-made stuff in the BG (houses?) not so much, you can eliminate those by a combination of cropping tighter and some blending in PS

TFS

I love the pose and its alert posture John. The surroundings complement it quite well.

Nice bird and muskrat house (??) It would be easy to lose the human houses in the BKGR with Content Aware Fill and some Gaussian blurring.

with love, artie

Yes to all the suggested improvements. Beautiful Great Blue Heron nicely shown. Thank you for sharing, John.

Hi John, I agree with the above suggestions and really like the habitat. GBH has a pleasing HA. I like the muted colors and maybe clone out the gray blurred ?bird? above the back of the heron. TFS

Oh how I wish those buildings were not there. apart from that, a nice looking frame

Will

Thank you everybody. That is a muskrat house and a farm in the background.