{"id":8700,"date":"2016-04-29T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2016-04-29T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:10:37","slug":"feed-me-great-egret-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=8700","title":{"rendered":"Feed me! Great Egret chicks."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Great Egret chicks in the nest. St. Augustine Alligator Farm, St Augustine FL<\/p><\/div>\n

The Florida Birding and Photo Fest is a week later this year than last, and you can really see it in the age of the Great Egret nestlings. Last year there were many nests of newly hatched Egrets. This year, some of the nestlings are ready to fledge. This is another of the “laugh-right-out-loud” images that yesterday’s Day Poem was based on. When I first pulled it up for processing, I did indeed laugh out loud. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Nikon P900 at 1100mm equivalent field of view. 1\/800th @ ISO 100 @ f5.6. Processed in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

This is the Day Poem I mentioned.<\/p>\n

Sometimes when processing my pictures<\/div>\n
after a long day of shooting,
\nan image will pop up on my tablet
\nthat makes me laugh out loud.<\/div>\n
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It is delight, pure and simple.<\/div>\n
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It may be a bird in an odd pose
\nor a chipmunk looking clownish…
\nit may be the way the clouds paint
\nthe landscape with shadow, or
\nan unguarded expression caught
\nunaware on a familiar face…some
\nchance juxtaposition of unlikely
\nelements within the frame…some
\nfraction of a second frozen and held
\nup for our attention, our admiration,
\nour amusement and delight. That
\nis the real power of photography… to
\nwake our wonder, our compassion, our
\nsoul<\/u>, by a gentle tugging on the eye.<\/div>\n
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Those laugh-out-loud-images are
\nwhat keep me out and about daily
\nwith a camera in my hand.<\/div>\n

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