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bittern - in flight

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Posted by jeff acreman on October 28, 2010 at 11:49 AM
bittern - in flight
suprise photo from this morning taken from a local nature reserve

canon 1D3
focal length 400mm
1/250, f5.6, iso 400

jeff acreman
Posted by ROBERTWOL on October 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM
great shot! - and just look at the size of those legs! Well done to grab a shot like that.
Posted by Phil Shaw on October 28, 2010 at 1:14 PM
"Life's a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get"

Nice capture given the circumstances. If you select the bird in photoshop and raise the contrast in the selection area, you may well be able to make the overlapping, out-of-focus branches affecting the bittern disappear. The other branches you would have to clone out if you are interested in doing that sort of stuff.