Make room for me

[Grace Scalzo]

From our town beach on the Long Island sound where egrets gather prior to fishing. Despite there being several trees that they could perch in , they all prefer this one and posture for their chosen spots. (There was a wing tip of a black crown night heron in the sky that had to be ejected.)

Thanks for looking and for your comments.

1/2000, iso400, f8
Canon mk4 500 f4 + tripod

[Sid Garige]

Looks like JFK at peak hours. Very nice image Grace.

[Grace Scalzo]

That's a perfect analogy, Sid. Thanks!

[Randy Stout]

Grace;

Interesting image, the front bird in lower right, looking up at the incoming bird adds a lot.

I might be tempted to clean up the two partial wings pointing up at the incoming bird.

If you were set up for this particular shot, I might push up the ISO to give more options for DOF to try and get more of the birds in focus.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Grace, the incoming egret is nicely framed between the perched egrets, and I like the space in this. Whites look good, and agree removing the spare wings would work.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice action. I like the overall feel here, and the incoming bird is placed and posed perfectly. I wish the second egret from right had a better HA (I know, we can't ask for everything in such a scene right!) and find the snowy at right too close to the edge IMO...I'd either add back a sliver more canvas, or, GASP....remove it completely(!).

A fun image!!

[Dumay de Boulle]

agree with Daniel...Good fun image with good exp and light

[Gen Benjamin]

Nice image Grace, I too really like the one bird looking up at the one landing. Great handling of the exposure with so many whites. Love the JKF analagy.
Gen