{"id":47420,"date":"2017-06-23T04:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=47420"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:07:27","slug":"snowy-egret-wading-in-dark-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/06\/23\/snowy-egret-wading-in-dark-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egret Wading in Dark Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SnowySnowy Egret in dark part of the lagoon – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1\/500, ISO 400, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 310mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I like high contrast images at times like dark birds against white snow or white birds against a dark background because they are visually interesting. They certainly aren’t as subtle as some of my images are.<\/p>\n

I knew when I photographed this Snowy Egret in a shallow lagoon at Fort De Soto County Park<\/span><\/a> that the dark reflections of the mangroves and mangrove roots on the water would produce a high contrast image. The whites of the egret seemed to glow compared to the inky water. I was sitting in the lagoon with the bird when I photographed this to get a low angle while the egret simply ignored me and hunted for prey.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I photographed this Snowy Egret in November of 2008<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew when I photographed this Snowy Egret in a shallow lagoon at Fort De Soto County Park that the dark reflections of the mangroves and mangrove roots on the water would produce a high contrast image. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,25,704,2000,255],"tags":[4004,5229,5132,1083,743,351,4120,5929,3997,3988,313,3996],"class_list":["post-47420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-snowy-egrets","tag-adult","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-dark-water","tag-egret","tag-egrets","tag-egretta-thula","tag-high-contrast","tag-lagoon","tag-snowy-egret","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\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