I'm not sure I can describe the joy when I saw this Great Blue Heron and was successful taking a few pictures. My experience with these birds has been to get only the fuzziest of photos when I've tried. I walked very slowing, stopping frequently down the dirty path that paralleled the stream until I finally had a good angle on him. I thought for sure he would fly off before I succeeded, so I took several photos along the way. Since he was on the far side of the waterfall the earlier shots were not terribly useful for painting, but I took them just for insurance to get some focused shot of this magnificent bird. I was so excited I started to draw and then painting him the very next day.
- Framed: 32 x 26 x 0.75 in (81.28 x 66.04 x 1.91 cm)
- Subject Matter: Birds/Animals
- Inventory Number: 16 1507 017
- Collections: Landscape, Nature - Fauna and Flora