The Heron His Head
To be brutally honest I wouldn't have known this was a heron if Jim Frazier and toddkeith533 hadn't clued me in!
A Great Blue Heron in his native habitat a.k.a. San Diego bay. He was hanging around for both of the days we were there, did a little fishing and a little dancing. The sun was headed down and he decided to pose on a rock close by so I obliged his posing by taking a shot.
As a side note we had a common skunk come walking through the ice plant on the left that evening. He didn't bother us, we didn't bother him and it was a bit too dark to get a shot of him. I also wasn't quite sure how a skunk would react to flash but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been good.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group (and anyone else with a technical curiousity) you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used. One thing I've noticed is this lens has a lot of vignette to it at a distance!
The Heron His Head
To be brutally honest I wouldn't have known this was a heron if Jim Frazier and toddkeith533 hadn't clued me in!
A Great Blue Heron in his native habitat a.k.a. San Diego bay. He was hanging around for both of the days we were there, did a little fishing and a little dancing. The sun was headed down and he decided to pose on a rock close by so I obliged his posing by taking a shot.
As a side note we had a common skunk come walking through the ice plant on the left that evening. He didn't bother us, we didn't bother him and it was a bit too dark to get a shot of him. I also wasn't quite sure how a skunk would react to flash but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been good.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group (and anyone else with a technical curiousity) you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used. One thing I've noticed is this lens has a lot of vignette to it at a distance!