An image of cracked paint on a sign by the Murray River at Morgan, South Australia, has been waiting in my Lightroom collection 'Textures and backgrounds' since 2012.

It has found a role as a metaphor for a network of channels in a wetland below a Cattle Egret.

I photographed the egret at a rookery in Toowoombalast week.

1/2000th | f8 | 300mm | ISO 800 | handheld + red-dot sight | 19 Jan 2018 ®