Bare-Throated Tiger-Heron
I'm off to Costa Rica on Friday to lead a photo tour with quite a few BPN members, some of whom I'll have the pleasure of meeting for the first time. I photographed this Tiger-Heron from a small boat in Tortuguero. Shooting wide open gave me the soft FG and BG I was looking for (I applied no blurring to the image in PP). Hopefully we'll all get some great images on this year's trip!
http://birdwhisperer.smugmug.com/pho...82_DRJXA-O.jpg
Canon 1D Mark III, 500mm + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/800, ISO 800, no flash, hand held from wobbly little boat :)