By Bill Webb
Just a Light Touch – by Bill Webb
This great heron was photographed at the Colleyville Nature Center as it flew above Angler’s Pond.
I had been watching this particular heron for quite a while and using it as practice for birds-in-flight photography.
I had come to recognize the signs that it would take flight, and I felt that it would fly over this pond and toward another one. That helped me anticipate where it would go.
Sure enough, almost on cue, it lifted off. With my shutter release set to continuous high-speed, 1/1600s, f/6.3 and ISO 1000, the camera clicked away, and I was able to capture the beauty of this heron’s flight as the wing tip barely grazed the surface of the pond.
I’m still practicing and learning how to capture birds in flight, and this is my favorite image so far in that quest.
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