JFK #1

[Arthur Morris]

After I left Panama I flew to Orlando and continued that same day to NYC where I met three nice ladies, all repeat customers, for the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge IPT. (All three were IPT veterans and one was BPN's very own Nicki Gywnn-Jones.) JBWR was pretty poor so we spent a lot of time at Nickerson before the tidal flooding. This image was made on the first Monday morning after the flooding. It was fun. I had to wade through about 300 yards of water that came just to the bottom of my pants pockets.

This image was created with the handheld Canon 400mm f/4L DO lens and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 2/3 stops off the low blue sky: 1/800 sec. at f/6.3 in Manual mode. 45-point AF.

I sat on the wet sand to eliminate potential merges between the landing birds and the line of the beach.

This one needed big time rotation and the removal of a post from the frame.