Great Egret

**Dumay de Boulle** · 04-08-2011, 05:21 AM

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Ofer Levy · 04-08-2011, 06:56 AM

Beautiful image!!

**Grace Scalzo** · 04-08-2011, 07:32 AM

Beautiful, Dumay. The bird's position drew me into the photograph.Well done.

**Vivaldo Damilano** · 04-08-2011, 07:38 AM

Dumay that long lens is working so nicely

Fantastic shot, love the pose and soft light TFS

**Doug Brown** · 04-08-2011, 07:46 AM

Very nice Dumay! Great pose, good sharpness, perfect exposure, and nice placement in the frame. One of your better images!

**Stu Bowie** · 04-08-2011, 08:04 AM

Well exposed and nice and sharp. I do like the take off pose, and just love that single water droplet 'left behind'

Mankwe?

**Daniel Cadieux** · 04-08-2011, 08:18 AM

Perfect exposure, nice flight pose, and comp looks great. A strong image to be proud of!

**stuart wanuck** · 04-08-2011, 08:20 AM

Lovely image great whites

**Dave Leroy** · 04-08-2011, 09:16 AM

I really like the exposure on this one.

Pose is perfect and lots of detail visible in the whites.

Very well done.

Dave

**Shaun Boycott-Taylor** · 04-08-2011, 09:39 AM

Perfect pose, Perfect exposure to retain the detail in the whites

Stunnning image.

Shaun

DanWalters · 04-08-2011, 09:57 AM

Beautiful! Love the wings!

**Kaustubh Deshpande** · 04-08-2011, 10:33 AM

Everything has been said....loved the light and the bird angle a lot. Congrats, Dumay...great shot.

Brendan Dozier · 04-08-2011, 11:21 AM

Beautiful image, Dumay! All been said, congratulations!

**Gary Esman** · 04-08-2011, 11:26 AM

Excellent! All has been said!

**Dumay de Boulle** · 04-08-2011, 03:27 PM

Thank you all for the kind comments

Yeah Stuart it was yesterday afternoon at Mankwe...Things are staring to pick up there

**Jim Crosswell** · 04-08-2011, 04:42 PM

A real beauty Dumay! I like the wing position, sharpness and details.

**Arthur Morris** · 04-08-2011, 08:03 PM

Lovely light, BKGR, pose, EXP, and sharpness. Where was this created?

**Dumay de Boulle** · 04-08-2011, 10:05 PM

Thanks Jim and Arthur...Arthur it was taken at Mankwe Hide in Pilanesburg National Park near Sun City S

outh Africa

**Morkel Erasmus** · 04-09-2011, 03:47 AM

super exposure, pose and BG here Dumay! nice!

**Arthur Morris** · 04-09-2011, 05:07 AM

Thanks Dumay. Does anyone know if the bird in the image is Ardea alba?

**Tony Whitehead** · 04-17-2011, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by Arthur Morris

Does anyone know if the bird in the image is Ardea alba?

That's the one, Artie. It's a pretty widespread species - we even have it in NZ (where it's called a a White Heron!)

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