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Darren Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 35 W: 0 N: 50] (245)
I have been very busy the past week or so; hopefully I will have a reason to announce why soon. This is an older shot of mine. I was lucky enough to catch this little white egret while he caught dinner. This is one of about six frame of the sequence. The bird is wild, the fish is a koi he took from the lotus pond at the Taipei Botanical Gardens.

I know that although they look to me to only be overfed goldfish, koi are actually quite expensive to purchase at a pet store. I am sure this guy's lunch was much more costly than what I would typically indulge.

Uncropped, normal post processing, tripod mounted, 70-200mm with a 2X teleconverter (aperture = f/10), ISO 200.
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Darren Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 35 W: 0 N: 50] (245)
Crop
Edited by:kooreman Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 156 W: 7 N: 128] (666)
Darren, After several tries I cropped the right side of this shot to get the bird more on the foreground. IMO the bushes on the right were too much in the foreground. I suddenly noticed more detail in the bird like the sun going through the feathers on his back.
Let meknow what you think.
Greetings,Jan