Snowy Egret

During my last Meetup at Lake Seminole Park, I spotted this Snowy Egret under a foot bridge hunting for his next meal. I was immediately attracted to the reflection of him in the water, which was so clear it showed his underparts.

This particular area under this footbridge is a favorite hunting/fishing place for all the shore birds in this park. There are plenty of Blue Crab to feed all of them. I've never failed to be able to find the birds here any time I've been to this area.

Settings used in making this image were with my camera set to Aperture Priority with partial metering on the bird, at 400 ISO because the light was pretty dim under the bridge, I exposed it at 1/30 at F5.6 with -2/3 exposure compensation to keep the white feathers of the bird from blowing out. I used my 55-250mm at 250mm to capture him.

Great Blue Heron Taking Off

I had a little help capturing this Great Blue Heron at Seminole Lake Park today.

My friends and I went there because it was cloudy and we felt it would be a wonderful day to capture the birds at this park. No problems with the whites blowing out.

We spotted this guy on the edge of the lake. We kept shooting as we moved in on him from 3 directions. Finally, he took off, and we all had our cameras set up with continuous bursts and continuous focusing to capture him if he took to the air. He just caught the air when I shot this one.