Maria Small
About the Image(s)
I was on my morning walk recently at the TriCity Park which is very close to where I live and
where I often see shore birds hunting for their breakfast at the manmade fishing lake. This
snowy egret caught my eye because it had just caught a big enough fish. As I was shooting, I
observed with much amusement that it continued moving around and turning the fish very
carefully and deliberately so he’d be able to swallow it head first. It took a good minute before
the egret finally swallowed the fish.
Shot the image with my Sony A7III and my 50-400 mm Tamron Lens. Settings were f6.3,
1/1000 s, ISO 500, at 273 mm.
I did the processing in Adobe Photoshop. I cropped the image, adjusted the exposure a bit,
decreased the highlights, increased the contrast, vibrance and texture. I also darkened the
background some and removed some of the distractions.
As always, am looking forward to your feedback.