Catch of the day

[Bryan Hix]

I have been waiting for quite a while to capture a decent series of Green Herons and was finally able to do so last Sunday. I was able to use my car as a blind and slowly rolled up to this nice specimen about 60 feet away. I was impressed with his successful hunting techniques. He actually ate three of these fish in about 5 minutes. It was slightly overcast for this particular hunt, but the sun came through for the rest of my series. I liked the direct stare and almost slight smile he has on his beak.

Canon 1D Mk3
600mm f/4 with 1.4x TC
ISO 640, Av mode, Eval meter +1 1/3, 1/250 @ f/8
72 am, 68 degrees
LR2 editing

[Sid Garige]

Fantastic DOF and perfect focus. Very nice job with the comp.

[Markus Jais]

Fantastic pose and angle of view. DOF is great. The fish is fantastic.

[Kiran Poonacha]

nicely seen this... pose works well.. a lower angle would have made this even better..

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting point of view, I like the head-on look, soft light and the fish adds to it.

[James Salywoda]

Excellent angle of capture I love the position of the fish as it works perfectly to how you got the shot.