Greenbacked Heron

[Stu Bowie]

Taken from a hide in the Kruger National Park. This was late afternoon in overcast conditions.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 360mm
1/125
F5.6
ISO 800

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand held from within the hide

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Killer pose,head details and beautiful bg`s color!

[Chris Kotze]

Super detail and colours. Lovely pose with the open beak

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Great pose, BG & composition. Well exposed with great detail & colours.

[Mike Tracy]

Expressive calling pose. Pretty BG. Nice clear eye and exposure on the heron. Wish the single leaf below his throat wasn't present.

[Ramon M. Casares]

The eye looks a bit oversharpened, but the pose, color, BG and comp are very nice.
Congratulaitons!

[David Fletcher]

Cracking shot Stu. Great sharpness and the overcast conditions helped. WD

[Harshad Barve]

lovely image with nice pose , details and BG colors
TFS

[Paul Randall]

Beautiful. Agree that the eye and surrounds look a bit over sharpened.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Pull back the sharpening a little bro and this will stand well! I don't mind the HA, it's sufficient for my taste! Love the pose. :)

[Dave Barnes]

The overcast conditions brought out the detail and colour well. Ditto the sharpening.

[denise ippolito]

Stuart, Really nice pose, details and BG. Agree w/ sharpening. Very nice composition

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much guys and Denise. Much appreciated.