I captured this image of a Wood Stork last year at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. I though it quite interesting that this bird had ripped out vegetation from the bottom of the pool of water and carried across the pool for a ways. Not the usual diet of small fish and crustaceans. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/2500 F/8 Matrix Metering EV -1/3 ISO 360, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Great control of the whites and nice behaviour captured. I wonder if this vegetation was pulled up for nest building? Or did you see it eat it? Would be improved if the stork was walking more towards us rather than slightly away from us, more engaging of course but also would bring the head out of shadows, you may want to try and brighten the head a little bit anyways. I'm not a fan of messy reflections and in this shot I'd eliminated a lot of that reflection by changing the crop.
Interesting behavior, and I too am wondering if it was not inspecting potential nest material. I agree with the critiques/comments above, except that I would not crop out more of the reflection as the subject is already rather big in the frame (unless you have more above as a trade-off?). The whites are looking rather nice.
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