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Rewelacyjne!! Gratulacje! 7/7

Excellent shot. The capture is originaly and extremly sharp. Very good as always your pictures.

Nature in the middle of the Food Chain..... well captured! Pnina

Spectacular capture. Amazing color and sharpness. Great composition as well. I am truly impressed! Congratulations.

No constructive comments.

You done good! 7/7

Fantastic!

10/10

Thanks so much for posting this great photo! You were there at the right time.

 

7/7

First thanks you all for so many nice visits and comments.

 

Patanjali: dragonfly was alive a few seconds earlier before this green heron snatched it in the flight - I honestly can not tell if was alive when photo was taken - probably not. But it got nice dip in the water before heron gulp it down :).

 

Grace thanks. Yes I was there all the time crawling in the mud :). It took me an hour before me and heron became friends and were keeping a distance of 6-8 feet between us without scaring each other. In fact when we established our friendship heron came as close as 4 feet one time because some small fish were swimming near me. I had to back off a little as my lens has minimum focusing distance 6 feet :). In the same time I started to have uncontrollable urge to smoke a cigarette (yes I know this is bad for me and I should stop doing it) and risking loosing friendship I lighted one. My new friend was quite nice - the smoke did not bother it. After a few hours in the mud my body started to get stiff and I had to back off.

 

I only wish I will meet my new friend in the future and continue our relationship. And take more full frame portraits in better light.

 

Best regards, Mark

 

Adam, Bartek, Jan, Pawel i Piotr dzieki wielkie za wizyty.

 

Adam: artysta to nie wiem ale zwariowany przyrodnik-fotograf to moze :).

 

Bartek: golenie nas wszedzie sciga :).

 

Goraco pozdrawiam.

 

Well done! Congrats.

Congratulations, Mark!

Mark, congratulations! I look forward to seeing this on the cover of a photography mag. in the near future. Or a spread in National Geographic with your other work...even better!

One of many great shots from Mark.

Wow, glad I visited!

 

This is just an outstanding heron image, in fact, easily one of the best I've ever seen. So full of detail, colour, and action that its almost hard to take it all in! Really, really good. 7/7.

 

Looks like I could learn a lot from you... brilliant stuff, I look forward to browsing your portfolio at leisure.

 

Kind regards,

Nice work and also thanks for giving us the elaborated description of this encounter. Very educative for Nature/Bird photographers.

Fantastic capture! WOW What a catch!!! I'm speachless!

I like it!

Mark: Excellent work and patience! Being there at the right time and place ... waiting patiently in the mud, enjoying a smoke (bad habit), establishing a relationship, gaining confidence that you are not a predator with the bird, getting that "photo opportunity" - a little luck, etc., etc., ... all make a "days work in the field worthwhile" ... especially to get the results you achieved. Again, excellent work - very impressive! Perfect 7s!

Wow. Great shot. As a person who studies dragonflies, though, yikes! It's eating a Tramea carolina -- which are pretty hard for humans to catch with insect nets!

this one is a winner, amazing how you got this shot, great pic

Great shot! Did you sell it? You shot this with a f4.5 lens?! Wow.

I notice that someone actually rated this a 1/1. Tells us something about the rating system here doesn't it...

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