The Reddish Egret

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

This was taken at Fort Desoto and the reddish egret was certainly strutting the beach that day.

Nikon D3
Nikon 600mm F4
ISO 400
!/1600, F8

All comments are much appreciated.

[Amy DeStefanis]

Hi Judy,

I do believe that have met your Reddish Egret! (???) You have about 300mm on my max focal length, though.

You got a great shot of this strutting - he was doing that for me, but from my angle, I had a white line of the beach in the background.

Amy D.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice struttin pose you got from him :-) I like the raised foot, and you made sure to give room for the trailing feathers. There are two spots in the BG that I would correct: The one between base of bill and neck, and the other between neck and body.

[joel quenneville]

Wow! A wonderful combination of nice light, great head angle, clean BG a good pose. I love the texture in the neck and the uplifted leg. Congratulations!

[Raymond Barlow]

wonderful image in all respects, but what a fantastic pose!

[Joanna Trescott]

Judy: Beautiful shot with a lot of macho. What a beauty!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, details and striding pose. Maybe a bit more room for the virtual leg?

[Fabs Forns]

Sweet as can be, my friend.
Are you guys coming to DeSoto for the GTG???

[Ramon M. Casares]

I just can't get enought of these guys, I love their colors and "lion" bird look, the shot looks great, the action, the BG, the light, everything preety preety GREAT! Congratulations!

[Stephen Stephen]

Lovely image Judy. I can almost imagine him dancing to a Rumba! I hope to see one of these birds someday.

[Kirk Benson]

WOW Judy, what a gorgeous bird captured perfectly IMHO. Great light, wonderful action, tack sharp, perfect BG. Very well done, be proud.

[Dean Ingwersen]

Love it Judy, great work!

[Marko Matesic]

Great hair day :)).....pose and light are fantastic!
big congrats!

[Grace Scalzo]

Such a fun image, I am drawn to the position of his foot, perfectly poised above the water. Great work.

[Nikolay Staykov - shotlandetsa]

very good image :)
nice head angle and timing, the smooth BG contributes for the image, too :)

[Gayle Clement]

Very nicely done, Judy Lynn. The thumbnail just jumps right out of the pack. A really fun pose.