Looking at a Great Blue Heron in Breeding Plumage.
Cropped, tripod mounted FE 100-400mm GM set to 282mm and A7rIII camera; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/1000 second.
Exposure corrected +0.10 Stops.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
More houses around Aberdeen's Broadway Hill area -- featuring more sunshine! Don't take it for granted, sun is a rare commodity in this area, rain being far more common it would seem.
I particularly like the homes on steep hills with the street level garage, often with interior tunnel stairway up to the house. I had a classmate who's family had one like this -- very cool!
The face from a medieval thomb.The face of my favourite Silesian,local prince,Henricus IV Probus - Henryk IV Prawy/Heinrich IV. von Breslau or Heinrich IV der Gerechte/Jindřich IV. Probus - in all his subjects' languages.
The prince from the Piast dynasty,which founded,baptized and ruled Poland and Polish lands for more than 400 years.
Extraordinary man absolutely.Minnesinger, poet and troubadour. I especiaslly love one of his poems,which I have learned by heart,though it is written in Mittelhochdeutsch and I have spent some time to find the original text.Some may say,that "Ich klage dir maie" it is nothing special,but it touched my heart stronger than expected.
An excellent politician and leader.He died, probably poisoned, just before his coronation as King of Poland.Shade...
A6500+Samyang 12/2
- my first and the only puplished picture with this lens.Very sharp across the frame and deprived of all kinds of CA almost,BUT deadly prone to flare.
