Spent two evenings at the Baylands recently. The snowy egrets and great egrets are becoming quite active, and the duck pond is always entertaining. By the way, I highly recommend bringing a bottle of wine while photographing egrets in the evening – makes an already enjoyable experience even more fabulous!!! As always, comments and critiques are most sincerely welcome.
-- Susan


#1 Snowy egret in flight

Beautiful shots Susan

Congratulations..... I finally got a Snowy displaying, but with horrible bg.

These are wonderful & I pick # 3, 4 & 12 as my top picks...

Lil

#'s 3, 7 and 12 most awesome Susan.
Love seeing images with those displays....and the backlight is a sweet touch

Susan you done did really gooood with this set.


Wacky roger

Susan, these are wonderful. Nice lighting. The displays are gorgeous. 2,3 and 7 for me.

Tim

Great series Susan.

Very nice series Susan. My favorites are #2, 3, 6, 7 and 9. Looks like you were handling your gear quite steadily after the bottle of wine. May be I should take a bottle of whisky in my next outing.
Jude

Absolutely gorgeous pictures and most probably among the most beautiful shots of these birds I have seen in a while.
The Egretta tula or snowy egrets are well known by their black legs and yellow feet. I am sure you know they only show feathers like those when they are in breeding season. Here in South Florida they are more plentiful during the winter months. I tried many times to photograph them at the Everglades National Park, always unsuccessfully. During a visit with the family to the Miami Zoo there was a beautiful one posing for me at the very entrance. The picture came out great and the enlargement printed with a professional HP printer was awesome. Life is full of surprises I guess!
Congratulations for your excellent shots.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.

Ummm.........Wow Susan Nice touch on these. Well disciplined exposures and backlight control. First, thank goodness for dutiful husbands building nest OK, now a few favorites, #3 and #11 just beautiful. Wonderful presentation, and great attention to details on your part.

Karl

camerapapi wrote:
Absolutely gorgeous pictures and most probably among the most beautiful shots of these birds I have seen in a while

+1

stunning stuff, well doen.

Andy

You have to be very pleased with these Susan... they are just beautiful. Skillfully executed.

T

3,4,7

Raz

Susan, these are great. I love those snowy egret breeding displays! I can't wait to visit the Baylands this weekend and try my luck!

Chris

Susan these are off the top images! among the best i've seen yet! What a display they put on for ya!
The big palm trees in #1 makes her look so small

Great series Susan. # 3 and 7 are really good

These photos are a joy to view, I love the breeding plumage and the flight shots with nesting material are excellent too

Good stuff little lady

Sue:
What a collection of egrets...
IQ & PP aside what amazes me how sleek they look IF compared to posing
IQ & PP amazing too.

Susan -
I always enjoy your coverage of the Baylands during breeding season.
- Ken

Very nice series! #2 and #7 are presonal favs.

J

Lil Judd wrote:
Beautiful shots Susan
Congratulations..... I finally got a Snowy displaying, but with horrible bg.
These are wonderful & I pick # 3, 4 & 12 as my top picks...
Lil

Thanks so much Lil - and keep going with that Snowy!!! They are fabulous subjects, and BGs do matter....

Dave In La wrote:
#'s 3, 7 and 12 most awesome Susan.
Love seeing images with those displays....and the backlight is a sweet touch

Multo thanks, Dave - and from all appearances, you guys are having WAY too much fun down your way lately!!!!

thehotel wrote:
Susan you done did really gooood with this set.
Wacky roger

Thank you so very much - it was fun - especially with some wine thrown into the mix!!!!!

Tim Kuhn wrote:
Susan, these are wonderful. Nice lighting. The displays are gorgeous. 2,3 and 7 for me.
Tim

Hey Tim, thank you! Especially for the picks. It is great fun to watch these guys on display - wish I could include the "glub glub glub" sound effects......

All are excellent, but #6 is really superb. Gregg

Great shots Susan,

#3,4,12 with ruffled feathers are my favs. Lighting and exposure is striking.

Sue, wonderful job on all of these, the whites look good.

Beautiful portraits of those snowy egrets Sue - so regal in the way they display themselves.

Wine, eh? Did you bring your chardonnay to eos adapter as well