Madison, I should have asked "If you want the original file I can send it to you so you can see what I did with it." I apologizel for sounding rude[], yeah the image does look like flash was used. The reason for that is that I stoodabout 8ft abovethe heron, and the heron was about 2 ft above the water, the 5pm sun was behind us and at the angle that could only light up the bird. 20 minutes later the bird was also in the shadow because the sun went lower.


I'm Vietnamese. [] Sinh-Nhut means birthday, Sinh means birth, Nhut means dayand Nguyen is my last name. I was born on Christmas' Eve, one day before Christ's birthday, hence the name.


Very nice shot of(if I'm correct) a yellow-crowned night heron, I like the way you cropped it.


ChileHead, very nice macro shot, I would like the see the whole head in focus.