I posted most of the best of my digiscoped images from this year’s trip to Space Coast Florida, but while watching a slide show of the images last night, this one really popped out at me. I love the light on the reeds, the backlight on the bird, and the contrast between the texture of the reed bed and the feathers of the bird. The color pallet also catches me. This is an image that makes me smile…and my Feathers on Friday offering.

Not digiscoped. Grabbed out the window of the car at Viera Wetlands, with Canon SX20IS at 560mm equivalent field of view, f5.7 @ 1/400th @ ISO 200. Landscape mode.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity and clarity (see the Processing link).