A few days ago, I went down to Bow Lake in the evening to take pictures of the beautiful clouds I'd seen while walking back from the convenience store earlier. After I got some mediocre cloud shots, a dude came over (there was a couple hanging out there, probably also to see the clouds) and pointed out that there was a heron on the rocks under the dam's waterfall. Since there wasn't much light left, I couldn't get a decent shot from that far away, so I tried to sneak up on the bird from the area around the bottom of the waterfall. I did not succeed in avoiding the evil eye from the heron but luckily they were very tame and let me get about 30 pictures before eventually I got tired and went home. I still can't believe I left before the heron did. Don't get your hopes up, as many of the pictures were terrible, but I will be posting the few passable ones. This may have been the best. Oh, and I named the heron Dr. Pepper because I got some shots of them fishing near what I thought was a Dr. Pepper can. Turns out it was Amped, but Dr. Pepper is a better name than Amped. I'm not sure what the heron would think of this. Postwork: corrected the contrast as much as I could to get it to look like the way I saw it. There was a weird blue tint, which I fixed by doing the soft light layer thing with sepia, green, and purple-toned copies of the picture (most, if not all, of those layers were a low percentage of transparency in case you want to try it yourself in a similar situation). I don't think I cropped this at all. Thanks for stopping by and reading through that huge-ass wall of text. EDIT: not assuming gender in birds anymore (because if you think about it, that just makes no fucking sense -- it's not like they can tell us what gender they are -- plus it's cissexist and binarist). sorry about that.