Even the Great ones miss occasionally

Was going back through some shots and found this one. This GBH was successful on every other attempt I witnessed, but this particular fish got the better of him. Must have made a mad dash at the last second...

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Thanks Greg and Frank -

Here's the scene just 4 minutes earlier:

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Note how accurately he placed his lower beak on this one. Clearly he has some expertise in fishing...

I'd like to come down for the shoot in June, provided my work hours allow me to build up enough finances to afford it (and somebody tells me how to successfully avoid the no-see-ums). I don't think I'll ever forget that tidal pool with all the spoonbills, egrets, and storks you could ever imagine being in one place!

 

Thanks Bryan and Gordon!

Virginia:

These were part of a sequence I shot very late in the day as the sun was going down, and I had bumped up the ISO to 800 in an effort to get some shutter speed. Was using the 300 f/4 + TC-14 combo wide open at f/5.6, so all of that combined to make them a bit soft and noisy. Plus, most of my shots that afternoon were either back- or front-focused (I think I have the same issue with my D2x Jim F. has been talking about). Because of all that, I had pretty much written off that sequence, but decided to go back through them to see if there were any I could salvage.

Thanks for the kind words...