Landing at my house

We are fortunate in Florida in that we have daily, close contact with a lot of wildlife. I have considered doing a photo book of just the wildlife I have photographed on my own property. This particular Great Egret has formed an attachment to me. When he sees me arriving home after a cycling workout, he swoops in from seemingly nowhere, and follows me around. He will even walk in, and hang around the inside of my garage if I am there. I just love this guy and I have often photographed him as he follows me around. I have some great portraits and other shots. Recently, I happened to have my camera with me in the from and he came swooping down and I captured a series of shots of him coming in for a landing. I decided to display this particular full-frame shot of him.

The shot was made with a Canon 70D with Canon 100 f2.8L Macro lens, f3.5, 1/800, 100mm and IS) 100.

The mailbox might be a slight distraction, but even though I could rid the shot of it with PP, I like to minimize that when possible and cropping would not have worked. The difficult thing was making a choice of shots in that I have him in some interesting wing configurations, but I decided to go with full wing spread. I am always amazed that such a thin bird, can be so spectacular when it spreads its wings!