Nice shot from this Heron standing there waiting for the ice to melt.
Seeing him I can almost feel the cold?.

Cheers,

So it looks like you use this lens fairly often, and it works well for you.

I just saw this image at "Sunday BIRD" - dPreview. Do you link it to MyOlympus or do you upload it elsewhere? Somehow the image posting never worked for me there.
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> So it looks like you use this lens fairly often, and it works well for you.

Yes, a fast lens is essential for winter bird photography up here in the north. If a day in November through January is overcast - then it is 1/400 sec and ISO 400 that rules even if I have f/2.8.

> I just saw this image at "Sunday BIRD" - dPreview. Do you link it to MyOlympus or do you upload
> it elsewhere? Somehow the image posting never worked for me there.

I usually show my pictures here at MyOlympus or at Myfourthirds first. Then in the post at dpreveiw, I link to them. The trick is that you must get the link to the photo itself. To get that, I go to the photo and right-klick. With the web browser 'Firefox' I can then just right-klick on the photo and select 'Copy image address' which puts the link into the buffer memory ready to be pasted anywhere. (I use a Windows machine by the way.)

Cheers, Jens

Very nice with good detail. Herons are great since they stand still for so long. I have a (not as nice) picture of the exact same species at the Los Angeles Arboretum. I didn't even recognize the "fat, gray one-legged bird" as a graceful heron all hunched up:)

G?Day Jens:

A great capture, and a fitting name for both the bird and the day. Fortunately, you have equipment that is up to the task, and you also know how to maximize the potential of your equipment.

There?s a great deal of detail in the feathers, eye, beak and leg, yet the background is completely OOF; it isn't 3D, but that dreary Grey bird really stands out against that dreary gray background.

I?m accustomed to shooting with a great deal more sunlight where ISO 100 suffices and where a relatively slow and short (f-4.5 ? 150mm ?300mm?) lens is all that?s needed for the Great Blue Heron, close cousin of the Grey.

Ardea cinerea = Grey Heron

Great Blue Heron = Ardea herodias

-leon