White-morph Reddish Egret

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk IV, 500mm f/4, 1/2500, f/5.6, ISO 400

Still digging through images from my visit to Port Aransas last April and found this one.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques!

[Yves Guillot]

I like it! Would like to see the complete tail and more drops : they add a lot to it!

[Carmelo Cannova]

I like the hovering pose. Nice highlight details.

Carmelo

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Real cool Mike. I like the water drops and the action you caught as well as the reflection

[Mital Patel]

Mike totally enjoying the entire series.

Sorry if this feel wrong but i was just trying to see histo and find that if we play

LEVELS : 30, 1.00, 255

the image gives new feel being on darker sea and shining Egret.

[Mike Milicia]

Thanks to all for the comments!

Mital, I agree that's an attractive alternative. With the white bird, you can play around quite a bit with the black point for different effects.
I experimented with it and the black point as posted is already a bit exaggerated from my memory of the scene and I didn't want to stray too far from reality.

[arash_hazeghi]

great dynamic pose and good exposure.

[Vikram Agrawal]

beautiful exposure, lovely detail in the whites. Beautiful bird too.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

One heck on an image Mike. not easy to pull off in that position. The inclusion of the water and the reflection there takes this several notches up. absolutely gorgeous.