On my trips down to the Ballard Locks, I can almost always count on at least one great blue heron hanging around. On this September morning, the GBH in the first four photos seemed perfectly content to hang out near the fish ladder. It was calm as can be sitting on a railing a few feet from the human foot traffic that had come to watch the coho salmon runs.
As the GBH is one of my favorite animals, I couldn't help but spend time taking advantage of a long, impromptu modeling session. For a bonus, on my walk back home I caught another GBH on its inbound flight to the fish ladder.
Post-processing-wise, I leaned on the Fuji Velvia profile in Lightroom for these shots. Normally I don't mess with the film profiles when editing, but here Velvia gave the colors a bright, saturated pop that was in the same direction I would have done manually. No cropping apart from the last image, which I felt deserved a cinematically wide treatment.
September 26 | Fujifilm X-T5 + Fujinon 150-600 f5.6-8
