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Great Blue Heron, Mousam River at Roger’s Pond, Kennebunk, Maine<\/p><\/div>\n

The other day, with our first snow on the ground, I went to Roger’s Pond, a little park on the Mousam River, to look for ice bells on the willow wands at the water’s edge. The Willows evidently had a hard summer, as there were not nearly as many as I remembered, and the water was probably still too warm. No ice bells. There was, however, this lone Great Blue Heron sitting on a snow covered rock in mid-stream in the early December light. A tricky exposure to say the least…attempting to get good feather detail without blowing out the white snow. I dialed the Exposure Compensation down to -1 EV and hoped for the best. I already had DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) set to maximum. With a bit of highlight recovery in Snapseed, it is about as good as I could have hoped for. <\/p>\n

Sony RX10iii at 600mm equivalent field of view. Program Mode adjusted as above. 1\/640th @ ISO 100 @ f4. Processed in Snapseed on my Android tablet. Cropped for scale. <\/p>\n

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