Marsh Sunrise

I made this little render and I'm honestly so pleased with the result. Believe it or not, the heron was actually my first time modelling an animal! I made a subdivision surface body, scattered some feathers, and texture projected it from a photo. The surface mist was created with shader nodes and a noise texture (see the 4th image), gradually fading off by Z height. I topped the whole thing off by using several custom compositor nodes I made which were inspired by effects available in Snapseed.