6 thoughts on “Tom Martinez, Witness: Great Blue Heron in Prospect Park”

  2. Thanks for commenting on the image of the Great Blue Heron. I’m the photographer and it was definitely one of those magical moments of synchronicity…. In response to the questions about the naturalness of the colors: I did increase the saturation of the image in Photo Shop which makes the colors “pop” a bit. I find that, sometimes, the original image fails to capture the true color observed by the naked eye so post production edits like that can bring the image closer to what I actually saw. That said, it’s of course a fine line between bringing something back up to the original (restoring the color) and crossing over into more of a dream-like richness of color that’s beyond what was there at the time. In this case everything happened so fast I hardly glimpsed and shot the heron before it flew to the other side of the lake. A dad and his son startled it just before it caught my eye, already in flight (which produced the shot). But something tells me (by the yellow of the leaves, etc.) that I did cheat just a little.

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