Great Egret

[Sid Garige]

From Gatorland this weekend.
Canon 7D, 500mm F4+ 1.4x
F9 1/400 ISO 600
Canon 580EX ETTL at +2/3

[Marina Scarr]

Hi Sid:

Great use of flash. You have nice detail and patterns in the feathers. This egret looks as though he's hunkered down and not too happy about the temperature and wind. On my way to Gatorland in a few mins. Hoping its worth the trip.

Marina

[Sid Garige]

Hi Sid:

This egret looks as though he's hunkered down and not too happy about the temperature and wind. On my way to Gatorland in a few mins. Hoping its worth the trip.

Marina

Marina,

You got that right. Little activity yesterday morning. Afternoon and evening was pretty good. Good luck.

[Tony Whitehead]

Well spotted, Sid. Very nice colour details amongst the soft plumage. Wondering about a version with edges/corners dodged to create a white vignette?

[Ed Cordes]

Sid, this is a wonderful image. I just love the way the eye is covered by the plumage. It does look like the egret is hiding!

[Bryan Hix]

I love this one. The comp works great. I would frame it and hang it on my wall!

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Hi Sid

Beautiful composition and the colors on face and beak contrast with the white. Excellent way to teach composition rule of third to others, where you have placed the eye at the left upper intersection point, beak runs diagonally through the frame and the tip of the beak ending at the right lower end of the frame.

Waiting for your eagle shots from Utah.

Manjesh

[Ramon M. Casares]

Lovely, stunning and aesthetically superb, love the light, exppsure, detail, mood and great detail, such a common species but at the same time, such an original piece of art. Big congratulaitons!

[Sid Garige]

thank you all. I did spend considerable amount of time on this in the field and while cropping. Glad it worked out.

[Christian Dionne]

Lovely, stunning and aesthetically superb, love the light, exppsure, detail, mood and great detail, such a common species but at the same time, such an original piece of art. Big congratulaitons!

Same here! such a beautiful piece of art.

Great job!

[Michael Stern]

Sid,
What a wonderfull IMAGE...Very creative; a pleasure to look at! Congrats!!!
Michael

[Jim Crosswell]

A real piece of art Sid!

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful Sid, love the comp and details would only eliminate the bill shadow, well done!

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

Sid, you threw it down here Brother!!! Awesome, and beautiful!!! It was a pleasure shooting with you, and i can only hope to achieve this level one day!
Don

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Sid, beautiful comp. very creative. Nice work. I think this would look even better in natural light. You may not have had good light at the time, but you should try it next time.