Little Blue Heron

[Rob Melone]

I captured this image this past summer from my kayak at a wildlife refuge island located in Barnegat Light, NJ. I saw the heron on my way back from shooting several hours on the water. I positioned myself behind some tall reeds and took several shots. I then maneuvered myself in front of the reeds and pushed off towards the heron capturing this image.

Nikon D7000
Nikkor 300mm w/1.4x teleconverter
1/1600
f/5.6
ISO 400

Manual exposure
Hand held from a kayak

[Richard Flack]

Beautiful image Rob. Great IQ and BG. Pity about the blurred read directly in front of the heron, otherwise really awesome.

[Raybel Robles]

Lovely image! I love this kind of photos of herons/egrets between the grass.

[Bret Goddard]

Nicely detailed and colors on the neck, a beautiful Heron.

[Frank Schauf]

Nice in habitat shot.

[Rob Melone]

Thanks very much for the comments Richard, Raybel, Bret and Frank!