The story behind the shot
Taken at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The water was calm enough to hold a clean reflection, so I stayed low and waited for the bird to step into the quiet part of the frame.
A greater yellowlegs steps through shallow water at DeKorte Park, its speckled brown and white plumage and long yellow legs mirrored in the calm surface, with faint ripples spreading out behind it.