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Spear Fishing

Spear Fishing

A great blue heron spears a trout with his long beak at Ed Levin County Park's Sandy Wool Lake, near San Jose, California...
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A great blue heron spears a trout with his long beak at Ed Levin County Park's Sandy Wool Lake, near San Jose, California
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upload_date

Jan, 2019

Views

455

Likes

+149

Awards

People's Choice in Herons Photo Challenge

Peer Award

+54

Absolute Masterpiece

+15

Top Choice

+11

Magnificent Capture

+2

Outstanding Creativity

All Star

Genius

Superb Composition

Superior Skill

Virtuoso

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Exceptionally beautiful!!!!

Platinum

Fantastic capture and beautiful edit....warm colors set off the heron nicely

Thats a big breakfast. Love it.

love this .. one of my favourites

Platinum

Great lighting and editing!!

Platinum

Wonderful feeling to this!

Stunning!

Platinum

Another sunning wall hanger, beautiful job of editing.

PRO+

Exceptional image...great capture and edit

Platinum

I really don't know how they eat fish half their size! OK, a bit of exaggeration.....

PRO+

WOW - amazing capture that turned into this fabulous composition with your wonderful skills !

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Superlative! Truly magnificent!

PRO

Stunning capture...and amazing timing! : )

Platinum

Awesome capture, and composition always a pleasure to view your amazing work Nina:-)

Stunning Work.

PRO+

Great find and capture.

Wow! Great capture! Love the titles you give your photos Nina.

Hmm...quite a meal! wonderful capture!

wonderful, i agree !

PRO

Hi Nina, Congratulations on your win. :-)

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