This Greater Snow Goose adopts the canonball position in preperation for a water landing.

Canon 7D with 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/1250, f7.1, ISO 400. Slight crop to off-centre the bird.

I chose not to "balance the whites". Because of the large amount of white in the goose,I didn't want to risk blowing away fine feather details created by the tones of grey. And after all,in real life, the light off the blue water did reflect onto the bird! Background despeckled as a form of selective sharpening on the bird.

Cheers,

Mike