Snowy Egret portrait

[Kurt Bowman]

Not sure this was close enough for a theme image, so left theme off the title. another image from my recent outing at the Gilbert Water Ranch. I was shooting this Snowy bouncing around and he finally stopped for a couple seconds so I could fire off this portrait. Was shooing in Av mode with highlight priority so when I focused close on thew whites my SS increased to where it was if you are wondering why I was at 12800.

A1, 200-600mm with 1.4 TC
1/12800 at f/9
ISO 1600
EC -1