{"id":46241,"date":"2017-04-15T05:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=46241"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:13:37","slug":"white-ibis-in-a-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/04\/15\/white-ibis-in-a-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"White Ibis in a Lagoon – Getting Down & Dirty for the Low Angle Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhiteWhite Ibis with a crab in its bill – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 160, Nikkor 70-300mm VR at 280mm, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

As the weather warms up here in northern Utah and as my fellow photographer friends in Florida share their images of Florida’s birds I find myself wishing I could get the low angle images I used to get in Florida here in Utah.<\/p>\n

Oh, I could if I tried but the birds aren’t quite as used to humans here as they were at the north beach of Fort De Soto County Park<\/span><\/a> and I would have to spend a lot of time under camouflage either in a portable blind or in a ghillie suit.<\/p>\n

Most of the time I photograph here I use a vehicle as a mobile blind to get close to my subjects and there are fewer opportunities to get down and dirty with the birds.<\/p>\n

At Fort De Soto I’d slither in the sand on my belly, or sand crawl, to get low angle images or I would slip into the water on my knees and move slowly towards my subject and photograph them with my lens hood just barely above the sand or water.<\/p>\n

I was laying flat on my stomach while half in and half out of the warm water of a tidal lagoon when I photographed this White Ibis with a crab in its bill and that is what gave me the very long reflection in this image.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t have gotten a lower angle without digging a trench at the edge of the lagoon to stick my whole body in. I loved the crab in the ibis’s bill and the out of focus sand dunes in the background in this photo and the beautiful blue water too.<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Ibis in lagoon – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 160, Nikkor 70-300mm VR at 280mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I was able to take a nice series of low angle images of this White Ibis in the blue lagoon by staying still as it hunted for food with my lens about an inch or two above the water.<\/p>\n

Sure I got pretty dirty to get the low angle photos I took at the north beach of Fort De Soto but I never cared.\u00a0 It was worth it.<\/p>\n

Life gets dirty sometimes but it is all good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my White Ibis photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

These photos were taken in May of 2009<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was able to take a nice series of low angle images of this White Ibis in the blue lagoon by staying still as it hunted for food with my lens about an inch or two above the 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