Caption

Great egrets (Ardea alba) stand in warm orange morning light in the shallow water zone of a lake during plumage, clouds of fog over the water, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date

Sep 19, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Frank Sommariva

Reference

BRK25M74_013

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

101.1Mb (4.2Mb) / 27.5in x 14.3in / 8256 x 4282 (300dpi)

Keywords

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