Nature Photography With A Purpose

The red egret photographed here shows and uncropped photograph with a cropped photograph. I then did some saturation, and used levels to find a right balance, in raws mode I adjusted the
Black levels
Exposure
Saturation
(I will talk more about the curves, layers, etc and printing in the near future. There are so many important things [...]

Today at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands it was very quite. There were not many birds about. Then I came upon the Red Egret. There is a pair that came up from, it is believed, Baja California a couple of years ago and they have been around since.
The red egret fishes a bit [...]