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    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.

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    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

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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