Juvenile Black -crown night heron

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Taken at the same time as the previous post early in the morning . I could remove the tree from the BG but much keep things natural unless it is a real deterrent. :)

Nikon D300
Nikon 300 mm F 2.8
ISO 640
1/1250, F 7.1
manual

All comments are always appreciated. Thanks !

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely light and warm colours Judy. Good landing posture with the swept back wing position. I like the hint of the OOF grasses in the FG. The tree does not distract at all.

[stuart wanuck]

must be viera nice landing pattern

[Grace Scalzo]

Ah, the light is lovely and warm, image is nice and sharp, pose is sweet, composition is too. But my eye keeps wanting to drift to that darned tree (or is it a telephone pole)? I'd evict it, even tho, like you, I try to do as little of that as possible.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely warm colours and pose..Super stuff

[Joe Senzatimore]

The light in this is spectacular as is the image. Beautiful detail.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Judy, loved the painterly BG, light and pose. well done on the crop too. TFS.

[Morkel Erasmus]

gorgeous light and love the pose Judy!

[denise ippolito]

Judy, I absolutely love the background. I'd evict the pole just because the rest is so wonderful. Nice landing pose and under wing details. Lovely light.

[Gen Benjamin]

Beautiful light and pose, but I do think the pole/tree distracts. Other wise a wonderful image.
Gen

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Many thanks everyone for your comments. It is the trunk of a palm tree that you see in the BG and I really did consider removing it. There are so many palm trees in vVera that it is hard to avoid them and I actually did remove one on the left. Again many thanks as your input means a lot. :)

Regards
judylynn

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The eye contact, light and setting look great. If you ran NR on the BG, I might try a version with a little less to have more texture in the near BG.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Great suggestion Axel. I like that idea of a little texture in the FG. Thanks !!!!!:)

[Aiden Blake]

I honestly didn't even notice the tree until I read your description. Not much point to remove it that I see, but the composition really works well here and the light of course is awesome.

[Nico Steenberg]

Great sharp detail and light to die for. Like the pose and comp. Subject is well exposed with good natural colours. Well done !