Grey heron taking off with fish

[Atul Sinai]

This is one of the old images found while cleaning the system. Was wondering how I missed this.

This was captured in Dec 2011. It had just picked up the fish from the water and was taking off.

Location: Pune
Canon 600D. 400mm f5.6
Manual Exposure
Auto Focus
Manual metering
Shutter Speed 1/1250
Aperture 7.1
ISO 400
Focal Length 400mm
Cropped by 52%
Handheld

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice action photo.Water dripping down the legs adds beauty to the image.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild


P.S.:I think, it is river Mula, your favourite hunting ground.Happy to see water in this part in the winter.

[Atul Sinai]

Thanks Shaktipada. This is Mula river and it was free flowing in the winter.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Quite a big catch. The take off pose looks nice. The water droplets add to the image. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice one, though it looks like a massive crop and details have been lost. . A wider crop would look better. Good to see that it caught a fish. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice one Atul. The water droplets and the fish in its beak add to the image. The wings seem to have lost focus inspite of the high shutter speed. I still have a pending birding session with you in pune :). Will call you the next time I'm there. Thanks for sharing.

[Atul Sinai]

Sure Murugan, let me know when you are in Pune next time.