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Great Blue Heron in Low Light

By Mia McPherson|February 25th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, bird photography, coast, coastal, dawn, earth shadow, Great Blue Heron, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, low light, low tide, wading birds, water|

The sun had not yet crested the eastern horizon when I photographed this Great Blue Heron as it hunted in the shallow waters on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.

Coyote in the grasses of Antelope Island

By Mia McPherson|October 25th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah|Tags: Canis latrans, Coyote, Davis County, dawn, golden light, grasses, grasslands, hunting, leaping, nature, nature photography, wild Sunflowers, wildlife, wildlife photography|

Last month I spotted this Coyote in the golden light of dawn while it hunted in the grasses on Antelope Island State Park. With light so sweet, how could I resist?