"WHITE IBIS WITH SNAKE"

July

Photographer's Comments -

I As I have explained in the past, I play golf here in South Florida four mornings a week and I always carry my camera on my golf cart. I get a few good images and about three or for times a year a really good one. In my 26 years here I have seen thousands upon thousands of White Ibises always pecking at or into the ground for seeds or small insects. Last Saturday as I was going from a green to a tee of the next hole, I passed an Ibis that looked like it had something in its beak, first time ever. I made a U-turn and found this. I quickly rattled off six shots and kept this one as the best. The guys were hollering for me to come tee off so I never saw the outcome.

Very little work was necessary in RAW or PS CS4.

As an aside, I am having an exhibit of 97 of my pictures in a museum starting this month. I have printed a book about it and you can access it here
ARNOT ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT JULY 14 TO SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 ELMIRA, NEW YORK / Book . Thanks

 

COMMENTS:
 

Stuart Caine	Burt, as usual you came up with a winner. The Ibis is sharp and in focus and the snake dangling from his bill makes it a great shot.
Dean Hellinger	Well worth waiting for, just perfect.
Eleanor Helper	What a catch! Excellent shot with saturated colors. Did you use flash or did you add the catch light in PS? Somehow it looks a bit large and off center to be there naturally.
Burt Hesselson
Donn Miertl
Tim Christoffersen	I enjoyed your book. I think I recognized the driftwood crocodile with the ladybug eye? This image of the white ibis with snake (snack?) is a good catch. The colors are striking. On my screen it is hard to see any detail in the white feathers across the upper back portion of the bird's body.
Larry Beller	I imagine the ibis won. You have an interesting subject, well composed and in wire-sharp focus. If it were mine, though, I would adjust the white balance to be quite a bit warmer, which would brighten the image considerably.

Member Bio

Burt Hesselson - Photographic Biography I shall turn 84 in Dec. 2008, live in Tamarac, FL [near Ft. Lauderdale,] been seriously into photography for 27 years, have six prints in permanent collections of museums and dozens in homes and offices around the world, including one hanging in the office of the director of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in Israel. I have had several one man exhibitions in museums. I have used Photoshop for 9 years and now use CS3. I belong to two camera clubs and of course, PSA. I very often give PS lessons at camera club meetings and in a mentor program we have. I have visited 64 countries and each time after 1984, first in slide and since 2001, with digital projection, have given hundreds of programs to camera clubs and other organizations both here and abroad. I have been published in newspapers and magazines too many times to count. Photography is my passion and I spend many joyful hours each week on it. It has been a blessing, keeping me occupied and feeling useful since my retirement in 1984.