One of the highlights of my photo tour to the Pantanal in Brazil next year, besides the incredible experience of photographing jaguars in the wild, is the large number of exotic birds. The easiest species to photograph are the jabaru storks. Sometimes when we'd come back to the lodge by boat, a mated pair of storks would greet us on the sandy bank of the river. In the picture you see here, the lodge nearby built a spiral staircase about 25 feet from a tree with a large stork nest. It offers are unique and compelling perspective that we don't usually have access to. I took this picture with a 24-105mm lens from about 20 feet or so above the ground standing on this staircase. The birds had just flown back to the next to roost for the night, and the light level was fairly low. That's why I set the ISO fairly high. My settings were 1/60, f/5.6, 1250 ISO.
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