Afternoon Heron

[David_Schoen]

Taken last Friday at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. I wasn’t even aware of this challenge until I got home that afternoon. Just lucky I guess. Dennis Plank and myself spent a mostly quiet and uneventful morning at the refuge. Not a whole lot of interesting subject matter on Friday with dark cloudy skies for the most part. The sun made it through the clouds for this image.

Iso-250, 200-500 at 500 mm, F8, 800th, handheld, D 500, Adobe camera raw 11, Topaz adjust, TK sharpening action at 20%

[Mark_Seaver]

The golden glow of early/late light does a great job of setting off the heron, David. Although the lighting creates a very different look, this view, like Gary’s post, is very soothing to look at.