Golden Great-Blue Heron.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Estero Lagoon offers spectacular colours in the water during the evening. I love the play between the golden/blue water, and the golden light on the Great-Blue Heron.

Canon 1D MKIV + 100-400L + 1.4TC @560mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/500s., f/9, ISO 400, -0.7 EC, handheld, FF.

[Ryan Schain]

I like the background and beautiful light

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

The colors of gold and blue play well with the heron. I like the windblown plumes and head angle.

One of the things I noticed on my images from that area was that the illumination on the birds was somewhat uneven, as if some clouds were causing dappled light.

The chest looks brighter to my eye than the head. Perhaps a reflection effect as well.

Just a magic place.

Cheers

Randy

[Pieter de Waal]

Lovely evening light on the Heron Daniel and agree with you it has produced a nice effect on the water. For that reason I might consider a pano crop (if you have more room) to emphasize the evening scene.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Lovely light and colors. Does it need a CW rotation? JR

[OvidiuCavasdan]

I like the composition and pose. Very nice light and great colors.

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful image and light. I have slowly started processing the images from that evening.

Now that Randy mentions, I do see some uneven light on few of my images. I was thinking it was probably a shadow from one of us!

[Ofer Levy]

A pleasing image indeed. I like the light and framing. It does need some CW rotation and I think it can be a bit brighter as in this repost.
Cheers,
Ofer

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks Ofer. He was leaning back naturally, but the rotation does improve the image .