To me this image optimizes a Great Blue Heron in their natural environment.
This photograph is one of approximately 20 shot in a series. How does a person choose which to publish, and worse, which to delete.

I could not delete this, or the others in this series.
Beautiful shot!
Thank you. The bird and marsh were very cooperative. I must have taken 50 shots, different settings, since I had time. Doesn’t happen that way too often though 🙂
I can imagine!
Wonderful!
Thanks. We have been seeing them often lately.
There is one holdout at the lake, we saw it earlier in the week. It’ll be flying south before very long…