Photographed at Homosassa Springs Wildife Park in Florida. This is a wild bird that hangs out looking for handouts when the keepers feed all the rescue birds. The lost foot does not appear to hamper him in any way.
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Took me a second to notice the missing foot. Would be interesting to see this guy in action. Lighting seems a bit harsh on the bird and dark in the background.
Ah, I guess he's well looked after now, one would hope so anyway. You probably know the sunlight is too harsh in this photo, not sure if you could tone it down by adjusting the curves.
He'd probably still have that other leg if he didn't keep standing on barbeque grills... Light is a bit harsh/strong but a very good specimen to photograph.
Some blown highlights and a slightly too busy background. Also, the bird is caught in mottled shadows. Using a wider aperture may have given you less DOF and blurred the background more.
Oh, my, poor heron. Looks like he got lucky and ended up at a refuge. I think I might increase the saturation a little on him and lower it on everything else to cut down on some of the distractions in the background, particularly the fence.
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