Great Blue Heron at “Big Pond” in Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton, Oregon April 13, 2014
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Great Blue Heron at “Big Pond” in Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton, Oregon April 13, 2014
It was the type of gorgeous spring afternoon that just pulls you out of the house into the outdoors! So I went to the Tualatin Hills Nature Park with my camera in the late afternoon. I hiked around the “Big Pond” to a viewpoint where I was treated to a view of this beautiful Great Blue Heron fishing in the pond. I set up my camera and tripod, and the heron was so cooperative! He would “pose” in one position for long enough that I could easily compose each shot and manually select the settings. Then all of a sudden, whoosh! He took off in flight!! Luckily, I was looking through the viewfinder at that moment, and by reflex I snapped the shutter to get this photo. Had I anticipated the prospect of him taking off in flight, I should have used a higher ISO so that I could have been using a faster shutter speed.