Great Blue Heron

[DanWalters]

Photographed these herons building their nests yesterday morning. Thanks for looking.

Canon 1D Mark2
500mm f/4l
f/7.1 1/1000sec
ISO 400

[Terry Olmsted]

They are such pre-historic-looking birds. I like the full wing extension and detail.
Nicely framed.
Terry

[DanWalters]

Thanks Terry! You are right, they even sound prehistoric!

[DanWalters]

Was not really happy with the jpg conversion, so I tried it again.

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice BIF pose, Dan. Like the full wing extension and diagonal line, nice underwing details, and twig in bill is nice touch. Wonder if it's possible to bring out any more detail in the shadow area of the far wing. Good capture!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I much prefer the WB on the repost, which was a tad too yellow on the first. Good gliding-in pose. Couldn't this individual have picked a bigger twig than that?? I'd crop just a wee bit more at bottom - just enough to hide the thin strip of cloud in LLC.

Anytime I show family and friends images of GBHs one word that always comes up from them is "prehistoric"...

[Sid Garige]

repost looks way better than original Dan. Very nice comp.

[DanWalters]

Thanks a lot for the comments!

[Shaun Boycott-Taylor]

Great composition and positioning of bird.

The second image is much better than the first.

Thanks for sharing

Shaun

[Dumay de Boulle]

Repost looks tops...The light is fantastic and the clouds in the sky add to the BG...Good one Dan