Snow Goose, Blue Morph

Gallery: AvianPosted February 3, 2013259 views4 comments

Bosque, Dec 2012

Sibley's: "Snow goose, dark morph: rare but increasing, distinguished from other dark geese by bicolour underwing, pale upperwing coverts, and pink bill and legs."

D800
500mm
1/250 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Spot
Exp comp: +1/3
ISO: 1250
White balance: Auto

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Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on February 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM

Nice looking bird and a good pose. I like the split background - but wish the bird was either over the water or over the reeds instead of splitting both which makes it a bit difficult to pull out all of its details

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on February 3, 2013 at 2:38 PM

Luke makes a good point, but it looks like you were still successful at getting the bird to be distinguishable....especially on what looks to be an overcast day.

Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments

Comment posted by Craig Strand on February 3, 2013 at 3:28 PM

You captured the peaceful grace of this goose as he glides in. I love this headson inflight view. I think my preference would have cropped a bit more, at least to eliminate the brighter horizontal bar of highly reflected water off the bottom edge, and then about the same amount off the top to keep the goose somewhat centered. Just a suggestion as I like it as posted too.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 4, 2013 at 5:19 PM

Nice approach shot, Sandy. I think I like Craig's crop suggestion.

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