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I was on the beach/wrack and dune walking paths hoping for a nice sunset to go along with the offshore glassy conditions. The sky was too thick with high altitude cloud. This wasn't working out, so I went up on the pier in Venice, Florida and walked up on this Egret, the bird was obviously humanized. Using the kit 55-210 zoom, I fired off a few shots and out of nowhere a tossed shrimp enters the scene. Someone I guess was trying to help out with the composition. Definitely do not have live shrimp in my camera pack. The background does not work for me, the bird saved the session with a silhouette opportunity. Right on!
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Sony a6000
55-210
f/8
1/1000sec
ISO 100
Cropped
Snapseed for post
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