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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on April 15, 2015, 11:57:01 am

Title: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 15, 2015, 11:57:01 am

The male egrets and herons are the initial nest builders...really all they do is place a few sticks together and then woo for a female by lifting their head and arching way back, feathers all spread out......which is their way of saying they are available. After they score a mate, the male then brings more nesting material but the female is the one who builds the nest.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: sdwilsonsct on April 15, 2015, 12:48:28 pm

Great contrast, light, detail, composition.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 15, 2015, 01:02:21 pm

Amazing shot, Chris. Surely one of your best yet (of a very fine assortment).

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 15, 2015, 01:39:42 pm

Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 15, 2015, 01:02:21 pm

Amazing shot, Chris. Surely one of your best yet (of a very fine assortment).

No doubt thanks to you, Eric, and your "instructions to model" cheatsheet  ;)

Ok, Chris, the cigar is yours this time.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: framah on April 15, 2015, 02:14:09 pm

I'm straight and I think he's HOT!!! ;D ;D

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: NancyP on April 15, 2015, 02:36:49 pm

Splendid! Great behavioral shot that shows the feature (specialized feathers for display) that almost made this bird extinct around the early 1900s.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: churly on April 15, 2015, 07:37:50 pm

Great shot! 

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on April 16, 2015, 03:52:58 am

Lovely.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Cem on April 16, 2015, 04:42:10 am

Excellent photo Chris, kudos.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Chairman Bill on April 16, 2015, 05:21:08 am

Superb

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Bob_B on April 16, 2015, 10:21:53 am

+1. A definite winner.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 16, 2015, 10:32:14 am

This guy was working it so hard, it seemed a shame not to take the shot. Thanks all.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Jeevz on April 17, 2015, 02:32:31 am

Awesome capture. Nice job.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: jerryw on April 17, 2015, 02:52:03 pm

Absolutely love the composition.  I'd give this one high marks for both originality and aesthetics.  Certainly makes you think that even creatures with less intelligence than ourselves have a need to express beauty.

Title: Re: Come on Girls, I Can't Hold This Pose Forever
Post by: Chris Calohan on April 17, 2015, 03:48:57 pm

I don't think they have a need to express beauty, other than instinctually, as much as to get laid....and as to intelligence, theese birds are exceptionally cunning hunters and nest builders which to me expresses a very high level of intelligence.