Great blue heron courtship

Posted by Missy Mandel on Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:24 pm

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500mm plus 1.4 tele, ISO 2000, F.5.6, 1 /2000

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by Karl Egressy on Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:13 pm

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Beautiful interaction well captured, Missy. Love the poses, composition and soft light.

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by Mike Wooding on Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:18 pm

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Love this image, Missy...great interaction and nice clean background.

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by Denis55 on Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:10 pm

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Fabulous all around image Missy!
Great intimate moment!

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by Cynthia Crawford on Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:11 am

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Totally charming! The interaction is beautiful as is the setting. Lovely composition!

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by WOlf38 on Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:34 am

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Great and beautiful capture!!

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by Katlady on Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:43 am

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Beautiful interaction. I could watch them for hours. I love the beak to beak action. Great BG.

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by Arabinda Debnath on Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:25 pm

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Beautiful image,Missy!

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by david fletcher on Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:15 pm

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always a pleasure to see your images and insights. i particularly like that there are separations between the beaks.. awesome timing

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by john on Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:17 pm

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A beautiful shot with great interaction.

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by Mario Fiorucci on Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:25 pm

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Great and beautiful capture!! Congrats

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by Robert Sabin on Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:06 am

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Karl Egressy wrote:Beautiful interaction well captured, Missy. Love the poses, composition and soft light.

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by swanuck on Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:03 am

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hi missy must have missed you out there besides the nice capture of greeting esp like the bg

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by TerryWSmith on Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:18 pm

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Just beautiful Missy. Love how it all lays out and the interaction.

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by Matthew Studebaker on Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:40 pm

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Oh great moment! Check out the histogram. It looks super low-contrast . . . I wonder what bumping up the blacks or sliding the dark levels to the right just a touch . . . would that make it pop?

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by Tim Zurowski on Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:37 pm

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Great image with wonderful interaction Missy. I could see a tad more contrast?

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by David Salem on Tue Jan 17, 2017 6:59 pm

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Beautiful frame missy, Love the interaction between the two and how the beaks are just barely touching. Great colors and details too.
The first thing I noticed, besides the beautiful interaction, was that it needed an increase in the black channel or contrast. Very nice capture

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by himadri roy on Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:48 am