Great Blue Heron Flying Toward The Sunrise

By | January 8, 2014

Sometimes I’m in the right spot and I am able to get the right light. Thanks to this Great Blue Heron for flying close to me and toward the sunrise.

Great Blue Heron Flying Toward The Sunrise Photo

A Great Blue Heron At The Charleston City Lake Here In Arkansas

Author: Steve Creek

An Arkansas-based wildlife photographer specializing in the wildlife found in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Steve’s images are created from his overwhelming passion for being outdoors with cameras in tow.

9 thoughts on “Great Blue Heron Flying Toward The Sunrise

  1. Greg Topp

    Steve! Another beautiful photo! Your animal life has not suffered from the cold as ours has here in the wilderness east of Hayward, Wisconsin. I am feeding about 20 Whitetail Deer right now each day. I holler for them and they come out of the woods to eat corn and alfalfa. I won’t have enough alfalfa but I will try to scrounge some more up. Other neighbors are also feeding their little “herds”. We have turkeys that are being helped out also. I work at the high school on the support staff and this is the third day we are closed due to the lousy cold. Things have to get better.
    Continued good luck and excellent photography!
    Greg

  2. Bonnie J Bishop

    Wow, and you are so sweet to give the Heron the credit!
    That is really a spectacular photo, and you were there at the right moment, but you also had to focus and know what settings, and frame, and probably panning and timeing too.
    Keep you and the puppy warm!
    Bonnie

  3. Steve Creek

    Greg, the temps here in Arkansas have been super low (single digit). I have been photographing mainly from my vehicle but it’s still cold.

    Good for you for helping the deer out. I’m glad we don’t have it that bad here but I do wish I had deer in my yard. :-)

    Thank you Bonnie!

  4. ritaroberts

    Wonderful Capture. Wish I could take photo’s like that. I think I’ve mentioned before that I am still trying to get a photo of a buzzard .Every time one flies anywhere near my home here in Crete I swear they can smell a camera because when I as much as move to lift the camera he’s vanished.

  5. Cindy H

    Such clarity, and wow, what a wingspread! I could sit on a marshy beach (in the summer) and watch these guys for hours. Such a regal lookin’ thing!
    I find it interesting that they probably don’t have a clue what they look like. All they probably want to do is eat, sleep, have chicks (speaking of which, I’ll bet the babies are cute but homely…have never seen a Great Blue Heron chick?), and protect themselves from predators.

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