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This egret in the sunset is one of my favorites.  Look closely and you'll see that he has a fish in his mouth.  My son and I were walking along the lake at LSU trying out some new equipment.  I had just bought an old Vivitar 300mm lens for my Konica T2.  I had the 300mm plus a 2X teleconverter mounted on my new Bogen tripod.  I saw the egret standing patiently as the sun was setting and set up the tripod.  I had just told my son that we should be going when the egret struck.  I yelled in disappointment but recovered in time to get this shot.   

I suppose that this photograph is my claim to fame.  It was taken during a Popular Photography workshop in Montana and selected for publication in the May, 2002 issue of the magazine.   The bright sun and dark rocks was a challenge in exposure.   I metered for the sky and bracketed widely; however, none of the slides came out as I'd hoped.  Having read about a technique for combining photos, I scanned one slide having the best sunrise and another having the best rocks.  I then combined the two in Photoshop.