Second chance at the heron on the canal

Hello everyone, here’s a short story of a second chance.

I was walking home along the canal a few days ago and saw a grey heron just sitting on a floating piece of wood, so I thought I’ll take a cool picture with my iPhone!

OMG, of course, to my horror, it was beyond terrible!

iPhone shot

I went home and later thought, ‘why didn’t I take my camera and go back?

So the day after I was walking along the canal again and saw the heron again! This time I had my Nikon D750 + 85 1.8g but this was not long enough. I immediately thought, here’s my second chance!! I got the energy to walk home very quickly and grabbed my other camera with a 70-200 attached!

I went back to the canal and he was still there but a bit behind the tall grass. I waited and wait then finally, he came out and I fired away!

Nikon D810 + Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VRII @ 195mm, 1/2500, f2.8, ISO 560

Finally he took off and I got a decent shot of him. It’s not the best but at least it shows that when you have a second chance, take it!

Nikon D810 + Nikon 70-200mm f4 VRII @ 200mm, 1/4000, f2.8, ISO 280

Thank you for reading :)