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Roseate Spoonbill landing in spectacular light (Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée, ROSP) from my OSPREYS GALORE WORKSHOP near Vero Beach, Florida ©Christopher Dodds All Rights Reserved. Sony Alpha a1 Mirrorless camera & Sony FE 600mm f/4 G Master OSS Lens with Sony FE 1.4X Teleconverter @840mm. ISO 4,000, f/5.6 @ 1/5,000s Manual exposure. Sky replaced in Photoshop.

Roseate Spoonbill landing in Spectacular light

Christopher Dodds April 21, 2023

As mentioned in my last post, the weather forecast for the entirety of the second Ospreys Galore workshop looked like rain, but as is often the case, we didn’t get much. This is an image of a Roseate Spoonbill (Spoonie) from the last morning of the second workshop during a brief break in the clouds, just before we got a 5-minute rain shower. The “Spoonies” were all landing to my left when this one appeared out of nowhere; I got three frames with this spectacular light that lasted only a fraction of a second, but the background was a crooked horizon line with part bright water and part dark & messy, distracting branches, so I replaced the sky to resemble better what I remember from the moment. CLICK HERE to learn more about my workshops.

In Bird Photography Workshop Tags Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée, ROSP, Roseate Spoonbill, Spoonie, Florida, Lake Blue Cypress, Stick Marsh, Birds in flight, Light, Golden, Stormy sky
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