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Snow Geese in Flight
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Snow Geese in Flight

by Richard Bernabe

Gallery: AvianPosted February 3, 2010260 views8 comments
Pocosin Lakes NWR, North Carolina
Canon 5D MarkII
Canon 100-400mm
1/20 second

Comments

8 comments
Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on February 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM
Richard, I like shots like this. I like that you have one bird that is relatively sharp as an anchor.
Registered on March 21, 2009, 202 Posts, 4187 Comments
Comment posted by Steve Balke on February 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM
This is a really fine example of the successful use of motion blur, Richard. I really like how we can see the head of one of these geese in focus amongst all this motion. It makes me wonder about the effect of cropping on this image. For example, I think that the more the partially 'in-focus" goose occupies the frame the more the image becomes less a view of a mass of geese and more a view of that one goose in the midst of all this. Very interesting. Beautiful too. :toast:
Registered on June 18, 2009, 229 Posts, 2915 Comments
Comment posted by Peter Wintergren on February 3, 2010 at 8:49 AM
Wonderful motion blur, very nice shot! :toast:
Registered on January 24, 2010, 15 Posts, 174 Comments
Comment posted by Jerry Greer on February 3, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Damn! What a week we had! I'm still working on transcoding the video and I'm up to 15G's of HD files and not even 1/2 way finished! Freaking nuts! :toast: :toast:
Registered on November 1, 2003, 404 Posts, 1977 Comments
Comment posted by John Kerr on February 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Nice action shot. I like the way one of the geese is in focus giving the eye somthing to key in on. I also like the location of the goose in the photo amongst all the flapping wings. I can almost here the noisy ruckus as they all take flight. Well Done.
Registered on October 28, 2009, 111 Posts, 1070 Comments
Comment posted by Ken Archer on February 3, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Congrats Richard :toast: These shots are difficult to make, your persistence payed off very nicely.

Ken Archer
Registered on October 28, 2004, 222 Posts, 6683 Comments
Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on February 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Cool abstract image
Registered on June 30, 2009, 300 Posts, 5051 Comments
Comment posted by Mia McPherson on February 3, 2010 at 9:44 PM
I like how the one goose is mostly in focus with all of the others out of focus. I can almost hear them looking at this.
Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments