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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on December 30, 2013, 08:13:51 pm

Title: Surveying
Post by: Chris Calohan on December 30, 2013, 08:13:51 pm

Great Blue Heron

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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 30, 2013, 08:34:49 pm

Nice portrait.

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Post by: sdwilsonsct on December 30, 2013, 10:03:31 pm

Super detail and colour, but I also really like the bird doing its thing in its place.

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Post by: sdwilsonsct on December 31, 2013, 01:38:27 pm

Isaac, the trunk is a feature, not a problem.  ;)

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Post by: luxborealis on December 31, 2013, 04:52:18 pm

Quote from: sdwilsonsct on December 30, 2013, 10:03:31 pm

Super detail and colour, but I also really like the bird doing its thing in its place.

Agreed - in B&W, the bird would be camouflaged. Even here it blends in well. Not sure it's one for the wall, though.

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Post by: Chris Calohan on December 31, 2013, 05:42:13 pm

It prints beautifully...and it may not be a wall piece, but it will sell in other, far more lucrative venues...hey, got to buy my toys.

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Post by: Chris Calohan on January 01, 2014, 10:16:01 am

Part of the strategy of a heron while hunting is to find a place where he blends in with his immediate surroundings. As seen in this next shot, they become masters of disguise, the blend so good that very nearly missed seeing him. This stump/tree area is a favored haunt for several of the park's Great Blues and given I've never seen un underfed one, the camouflaging must work pretty well. I think the tree works as a part of his ability to not be as readily seen from a fish looking up. It's a guess, anyway.