A couple of White Ibis appear to be parting ways on the beach in Grand Isle, LA. We were beach panning there and these were the only birds on the beach at that moment, quite a bit larger than the little shore birds that scurry across the sand that I’m used to photographing with my beach panning rig. My goal was to get both birds in focus at once and because one was slightly closer than the other, I had to close down my aperture to do that. I’d started at f/9 because I had the Nikon Z1.4x teleconverter attached to the Nikkor Z600PF f/6.3 lens. After a few tries, I succeeded in getting the eyes of both birds in focus at f/18.