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<\/p>\nI actually got nine\u00a0additional photos of this bird in flight but I thought these fourteen were the best ones. They’re all presented in the\u00a0order they were taken\u00a0with no skips. As in all series some are better than\u00a0others but whenever\u00a0practical I like seeing all of them with none left out of the sequence.<\/p>\n
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I photographed this heron six days ago at Farmington Bay WMA. Despite the fairly busy background I had several things in my favor in getting a long series of decent images as the bird took off and flew to my left:<\/p>\n
There’s a lot if images here and many of them are similar so I won’t be doing much narration (can you imagine that, he’s going to mostly\u00a0shut up for a while!). The photos speak for themselves, good,\u00a0bad or indifferent.<\/p>\n
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Here I like the water and duckweed trailing off of\u00a0the feet as the heron takes off.<\/p>\n
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Notice that he continues to fly horizontally without gaining elevation. I believe his goal was a fairly large body of water that was directly in front of him so it would be a waste of energy to gain elevation when his intention was to land soon.<\/p>\n
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I’ll end with the single image I posted of this bird six days ago. For the entire series I’ve cropped to include all of\u00a0the shadow because I think it adds a little\u00a0something to each photo.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons I enjoy seeing series with no skips like this is\u00a0it allows me to accurately judge how far the bird has traveled in the 1\/10th of a second between images in a burst with my camera. For some reason I enjoy analyzing stuff like that…<\/p>\n
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Note: Image techs for these photos were: 1\/2500-1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 234mm.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I actually got nine additional photos of this bird in flight but I thought these fourteen were the best ones. They’re all presented in the order they were taken with no skips.<\/p>\n