Midnight Heron

Snootchies · 2013-03-20T07:25:42+0000

I took this close to midnight on Saturday. I was by the River Dee in Chester where I live. At a part of the River there is a large weir where herons and cormorants tend to fish. I noticed the faint silhouette of this particular heron, and changed to my 55-300mm I'm glad I took with me. It was very dark and challenging to focus - could hardly see it. After a few long exposures I realised that 4 seconds was about as good as I was going to get from this particular bird before it moved slightly. So I upped the ISO to 800 to compensate. There were a few lamposts behind me which provided some light for the scene.