Photo of the Month
Wood stork and Morning Fog
"I knew the fog would eventually burn off and daylight would finally reveal the 600 + nesting pair of wood storks and other wading birds. So far I had only heard them, with constant chatter since entering my photo blind at 6 am - two hours earlier. I was standing in the blind on a platform up from the ground about 10 feet, one I had set-up on a previous trip to the Harris Neck Wildlife refuge on the coast just south of Savannah Georgia. I knew, this time my patience would pay some dividends with a spectacle not many people get to experience. The numbers of birds flying at one time, in and out of the rookery doing the work of finding and delivering food to their hungry chicks was truly awesome. I was still shooting film and burned through several rolls of slides and if it had been digital I could easily have filled a couple of 4 gig cards. But still after repeat edits of all the images, one of my favorite shots was this lone wood stork on his very own perch in the receding fog, preening and just taking a breather from all the craziness."Eric Horan
Photo tip: “Plan the plan but not the results”. It’s so true – this trip, the fog surprised me, I was thinking full sun and I was not thinking about single static bird portraits but action and behavioral shots showing adults feeding their chicks etc… That was the plan and the result, a strong moody portrait of one lone bird.
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