Summer never ends on Key West

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Summer never ends on Key West.
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This is another photograph that I had in my Great Blue Heron file, that hoped to find a place to post some day. The shot was taken from my Zodiac on Sept. 9, 2020 at 7:20 AM. The Ospreys were leaving and this back light Blue setting in what was a active Osprey nest, just sold the end of summer.
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Peter

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Technical Details

Canon 7Dll, Sigma lens 150-600mm, f6.3, 600mm, -1EV, 1/8000, ISO 800. The shot was cropped by 40%. I used DXO Photo Lab 5, Nik Collection Silver Efex Pro 3 to convert the photograph into B&W.
(the shutter was set to auto)

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Exquisite light, Peter. I love how you left just a touch of detail in the otherwise silhouetted Heron. I also love how the man-made is juxtaposed with the majestic wildness of the nesting Heron.
Postcard? I’ll take a dozen, please.

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Very nice. A good idea to convert to B&W and to make a silhouette (almost). Beautiful sky as a BG as well. I love it.

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Peter, this does an excellent job of capturing a sense of place with the Heron against an interesting sky.

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Nice job on this image. The silhouette really works here with the unusual cloudy background. Nice work.

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Hi
Thank you for the comments, It is a honor to post photographs with Nature Photographers Network of talented group of photographers.
Peter

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WAY cool!! The Heron is majestic and perfectly positioned on his photogenic perch! The clouds make a perfect BG for the B/W conversion!