Dawn Heron

Gallery: AvianPosted October 7, 2009188 views26 comments

Great Blue Heron fishing at dawn. Thanks for looking and commenting.
Canon 40D, 400mm f5.6L at f9.0, 1/1600, iso400

Comments

26 comments

Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on October 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM

Spectacular Greg! I love all the open gold space, and despite the heron just being a silhouette, there's so much intensity!

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Comment posted by Mia McPherson on October 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM

Greg,

I like the utter simplicity of this. Quite appealing to me, love the golden toned water.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM

Beautiful silhouette, Greg. For some reason thew standard vertical presentations always feel tall and skinny to my eye, so I might chop a bit off the bottom, but that's strictly a matter of taste.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on October 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM

Greg, I really like this as posted. Very simple, but very captivating. The subtile ripple on the water makes this image work IMO. Very nicely done.

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Comment posted by Doug Backlund on October 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM

IMO there's too much space at the bottom, but that's just me, otherwise, a great silhouette, and that water is really beautiful.

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on October 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM

great silhouette, reflection and tones

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on October 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM

Lovely Greg, love the composition.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on October 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM

Really nice and quite creative. It needs a little tiny CCW rotation I think though

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Comment posted by Pramod Viswanath on October 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM

Stunning image this! minimalistic as well as impactful! Love the tones of the water and the silhouette contrasts and blends so well with the scene. Tops my list of most creative images that I have seen of late!

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Comment posted by Karon Welter on October 7, 2009 at 11:02 PM

Interesting shot. I really like it!

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Comment posted by Avi Hirschfield on October 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM

Very different yet we see things like this all the time but just never post or photograph them
I love the Strike pose of the bird in this great expanse of water and the morning gold

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Comment posted by Bryan Hix on October 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM

I really love the backlight. Agree that you could tighten the crop for more impact.

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Comment posted by Mack Barham on October 8, 2009 at 12:12 AM

Awesome - I think there is a little to much negative space below the bird and reflection. That is a minor not.

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Comment posted by Greg Cope on October 8, 2009 at 12:28 AM

Appreciate the feedback! After a few hours not looking at the image agree with those suggesting the crop that it could use a bit off the bottom, and thanks for making the suggestion. One of those crops where I probably won't do a repost because the web browser can do the cropping for me

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Comment posted by Guy Rogers on October 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM

Hello Greg.

Every thing is just right about this super image.

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Comment posted by Richard Peters on October 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM

I love these types of shot Greg. the colours and the space make for a very strong image

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Comment posted by Ian Mason on October 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM

Love it as posted! You've several options with this one. I might try it a little darker. I like the negative space.

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Comment posted by Scott Day on October 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM

Really beautiful and simple composition. Would work well as a square comp if you were so inclined but nice as posted.

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on October 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM

What beautiful golden water. This is special! Sharon

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Gorgeous silhouette Greg

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Comment posted by Nilanjan Das on October 9, 2009 at 5:13 AM

Superb shot. Love this one.

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Comment posted by Rebecka on October 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM

Calls you back to look... and look again. Congrats.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on October 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM

Exceptional simplicity rules. Love it.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on October 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Wonderfully simple. Love the colour and composition

cheers
Rob

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on October 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM

Very simple, and VERY effective. Nice work, Greg.

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Comment posted by Ganesh H Shankar on October 11, 2009 at 12:06 AM

Lovely composition and beautiful silhoutte here Greg

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