Cattle Egret Landing

[Rudi van den Heever]

Location: Mankwe Hide, Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa
Time and Date taken: 06H28, 31 December 2010
Equipment: Canon 7D and 100-400mm F4 L lens at 400mm
Settings: 1/3200s at F5.6 and ISO 800

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent landing pose and a great BG to go with it

[Stu Bowie]

Rudi, good exposure and detail on the egret, and I like the soft light. Well timed for the approach.

[Humberto Ramos]

Hi Rudi,
Great capture, IMO is just perfect.

[Dan Avelon]

what a cool landing pose!

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks for the postive feedback everyone - Much appreciated! The light wasn't ideal, but gave me the opportunity to get the whites well exposed....

[Craig Kerr]

I love the detail and texture of the feathers in this shot Rudi... Beautiful landing pose

[Raymond Lee]

Great exposure! Love the landing pose. Sometimes poor lighting gives the pretty good results in retaining the details in the light-colour subjects.

[Geir Jensen]

Great capture . I like it very much.

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks Craig, Raimklee and Geir!