This photo wasn’t necessarily on purpose but when I was going through the photos and saw how just the splash was in focus I thought it was different in a good way.  The Tricolored Heron had just caught this minnow in an explosively quick strike and since I had been shooting this was frame filling close there was no way I was getting the splash and the bird in focus.  The original background was solid black so I darkened the bird just a bit to really draw your eye to the splash and the minnow in its beak. Tricolored Herons are my favorite wading species that I’ve crossed paths with.

Ray Hennessy

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sunset rays at plettenberg bay, garden route, south africa

Thomas Bennie

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first light over the cape town harbor

Shay Cohen