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As part of an article I was writing for PetaPixel about a telephoto lens that was as surprisingly effective as it was cheap, I was shooting birds in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge along the southern New Jersey coast this spring. The lens was the bargain basement Olympus 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 II mounted on an OM 1 Mark II. The subject was one of the many herons stopping along that famed sprawl of flyway across the bay from Atlantic city. There is no post-processing on this.