{"id":4531,"date":"2012-02-25T05:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:09:09","slug":"great-blue-heron-in-low-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/02\/25\/great-blue-heron-in-low-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron in Low Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GreatGreat Blue Heron in pre-dawn light – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 240mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The sun had not yet crested the eastern horizon when I photographed this Great Blue Heron as it hunted in the shallow waters on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Although I could have waited for better light I wanted to capture this heron as it stalked its prey just before the golden light of dawn arrived so I laid down on the sugar sand created a nice series of images of this bird.<\/p>\n

The tide was very low that morning and that exposed an off shore sandbar that is seen on the horizon as a gray line and just above that is the Earth’s shadow<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Life is <\/em>good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Great Blue Heron photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sun had not yet crested the eastern horizon when I photographed this Great Blue Heron as it hunted in the shallow waters on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,166,2000],"tags":[4004,4117,4021,5229,5132,1030,4198,3987,4077,627,626,156,4930,313,3996],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-great-blue-herons","category-pinellas-county-florida","tag-adult","tag-ardea-herodias","tag-bird-photography","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-dawn","tag-earth-shadow","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-heron","tag-herons","tag-low-light-2","tag-low-tide","tag-wading-birds","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t