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Taking Flight

Taking Flight

Great blue herons (Ardeidae) are large wading birds common near shorelines and open water. We encountered this one, which stood about 3 feet tall, just by chan...
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Great blue herons (Ardeidae) are large wading birds common near shorelines and open water. We encountered this one, which stood about 3 feet tall, just by chance on the Monterey coast in California. It made for a wonderful photo op and gave me a chance to do a little photo art...
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Jan, 2017

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Darn thieving vb stole my genius award. This is what art is all about......beautiful

So very talented and skillful. Brilliant

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You have hit another home run with this shot. You have taken a truly wonderrful capture to new heights. Congrats this is a winner.....

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Outstanding shot of this heron, outstanding textured edit!

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Fabulous capture Nina, I'm sure this one will end up be published!!! Fantastic edit.

this is absolutely Jus stunnin', Nina!! シ

Pure Genius my friend. Perfectly timed capture.

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So beautiful....love your artist touch!!! : )

STUNNING!

Very artistic editing :)

Beautiful Nina!

Amazing shot and I love your photo art edits!

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Lovely and great muted colours....

outstanding !!

Absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!

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Somberly graceful & beautiful! ッ

Superb capture and editing dear Nina...I agree with Mark's comment...new heights indeed!!! xoxoxo

So cool shot!!!

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You captured the motion beautifully:-)

breathtaking!

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