Heron

The framing, textures and sharpness of shot are really 1st rate, and the dof coupled with the soft warm muted colours of the backdrop make this a very striking and attractive shot.  Very well done Grayham!

Best Regards

Alf

Thank you so much for your descriptive comments. The blanket of low white cloud helped to mute the colours and the 400mm lens tends to flatten the DoF quite nicely. The backdrop is actually the bush on the far side of the narrow inland estuary that we were sneaking along.

Thanks for your visit and interest.

Best regards

Shooting 100's of images during a week-end away, one tends to

process those that "pop" out at you when you upload them to the

computer. A re-visit to the folders, sometime later, turns up a few that

you missed.

Constructive comments are always appreciated.

Regards

That IS a great experience to find something you missed in a folder. Sometimes I think my tastes change over time to allow me to appreciate certain photos more.

I like this one, too. The branches provide a nice "frame," the out-of-focus background works and the heron is intriguing to me, since i don't recognize it and don't feel like looking it up. Is it a juvenile?

Thanks for your visit and comments. Much appreciated.

My Australian Bird book lists this as a male White-faced Heron in breeding plumage (the brown on chest and shoulders). Prolific in the Western Australian wetlands.

Thanks for your interest.

Regards

Another beauitful image Grayham. Now I see the other one must be a Heron, but is much blue-er. Would the female be grey? I know male birds are usually much more colourful. Excellent capture Grayham!

Thanks for your vist, kind comments and query.

This guy in is his "mating" colours.... the brown chest and shoulders, and the dull lighting here may have shaved off a tad of his blue colouring. I would suspect that the other image is a girl and her blue colouring has been exentuated by the light bouncing off the water. Hopefully that all makes sense..(smiles).

Thanks for your interest in this image.

Fond regards