Aerial Combat

DSC_5541, originally uploaded by CLJahn.

A Great Blue Heron and an American Egret vie for the same fishing ground, and spent a few minutes chasing each other around in a wild dogfight.

I was shooting with my Vivitar 500mm f/8 lens, which meant that not only did I only have a 5 degree field of view, but it's a manual focus lens. This is the only shot I got of the aerobatics, and it was out of focus.

So I ran it through Photoshop's posterization filter to try and create an image that captured the essence of the moment while overcoming the focus issue.