Solitude

At the end of one of my sessions, after the sun had gone below the horizon, this Great Blue Heron was wading alone in the water for fish. The lighting wasn’t too good, especially for my much older camera. Because of this, the original image didn’t have a lot of detail or color in it, so I decided to make it a black and white photo. The water was calm enough to make this reflection pretty good, though the birds movements made ripples. I enjoy this picture because of the intensity and focus in the birds posture and eyes. It’s souly fixated on obtaining food, fully in the moment, isolated in the moment, in solitude.