Hi Terry, Thanks for the explanation. I guess you've never attempted to shoot birds on the wing. An egret, or any bird in flight is always a "grab shot," as I explained to Jeremy. I also pointed out that I'm not happy with the framing either, but it's what I had time to grab. It isn't always that way. Sometimes you have a chance to go for a shot like this one. But it's still a "grab."
And I'm still complaining about User Critiques being overtaken by "I was there", "Here's my cat", "Trees I've seen", "Sunsets I've seen," and similar tourist and pet pictures. Those picture categories were big in the days of the Argus C3, but it's time for LuLa to go beyond that. Actually it did go beyond those categories for a while, but unfortunately it's regressed. You've been on LuLa long enough to remember the posts and critiques we were seeing eight years ago, when I first came on. Instead of arguments about politics and climate change we used to have arguments about photography. Even about photo subject matter, as opposed to equipment. That was what attracted me to LuLa in the first place. Unfortunately the attraction is fading, rapidly.
By the way, if the highlights appear blown, you're having some kind of problem with your monitor.