Monochrome Monday; A Delicate Ballet Dance!

Great Egret (click to enlarge)

While out on Virginia's Eastern Shore a couple of weeks ago, I saw this Great Egret standing on part of a downed branch next to a creek.  More or less for practice (as it is a common bird and I have literally hundreds of photos of them), I stopped and made several images of it.  In this one image I managed to capture this Great Egret positioning itself to preen some feathers.  When I later looked at my images, I thought this one appeared as though this bird was engaging in a delicate ballet dance.

Originally, I edited this in color.  It was okay but the more I looked at it the more the color became a distraction from the egret’s unusual pose, subtle tonalities and fine textures.  This is a good example of when black & white represents a subject better than color.

Stopping to practice photographing an ordinary bird produced a very unusual and pleasing photograph.  You never know.

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Dennis A. Mook  

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