This is an odd title for my Greater Snow Goose pic, but there is a reason.

One of the pleasures of bird photography is the presence of good friends and the meeting of new ones.

I met Marielle and Daniel at a top-notch Greater Snow Goose photography site today, and Marielle asked me to say a hello via my site - as simple as that!

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/1000, f7.1, ISO 400, +1/3 exposure compensation. This image was shot using .jpg instead of .raw - I was running out of memory. I did say this is a top-notch site with tons of opportunities!

The light situation was difficult today. The light changed constantly due to variable cloud cover. Added to that, you have to be carefull with these white birds as you shoot a burst while the bird rapidly goes from blue sky then crossing the horizon to a darker background. It is very easy to blow out the whites, and the automatic focus of my Canon camera has the bad habit of losing focus when going from sky to horizon.

Slight crop for composition purposes after the horizon was straightened. The white bar at the bottom of the image, believe it or not, is composed of geese in the water! I ran a blur brush to even things out.

For this shot, I was trying to get a face-on shot with the Fall ochre vegetation in the background. I think these are much more interesting that pure sky shots, but hey, I do take those, too.

Cheers,

Mike