{"id":9941,"date":"2017-02-21T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2017-02-21T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:31:13","slug":"beauty-shot-great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=9941","title":{"rendered":"Beauty shot…Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Blue Heron, Merritt Island NWR, Florida<\/p><\/div>\n

Great Blue Herons are easy subjects. They are abundant…especially off Blackpoint Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville Florida…big, calm, and attractively plumaged. They are not bright birds…that is their plumage does not have a lot of color…but they make up for it by posing for the camera. You might say that posing is what Great Blue Herons do best…though of course they are totally unaware that the way they go about their business is photogenic. I caught this bird in an ideal setting, framed by the reflections, in wonderful light, arrested motion in perfect balance and grace, and with a ruffling of the back feathers to lend visual interest. Even the ripples in the still water add to the beauty of the shot. No credit to me. I just pressed the shutter. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Sony Rx10iii at 600mm equivalent field of view. 1\/500th @ ISO 100 @ f4. Processed and cropped slightly for composition in Polarr on my iPad Pro. <\/p>\n

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