For Wings on Wednesday, a brief return to Bosque del Apace National Wildlife Refuge from last November. I have lots of shots of geese in flight from each trip to Bosque (who can resist?), but this one, with the geese set off by the fall foliage of the cottonwood behind and the natural pattern drawing the eye to the center, is among my favorites.

The fact that it is digiscoped…taken through the eyepiece of the spotting scope with a small digital camera…adds to the magic. The relatively small real aperture of the system increases the number of geese in focus beyond what would be possible with a conventional lens at this image scale and distance.

Canon SD4000IS behind the 15-56x Vario Eyepiece on the ZEISS DisScope 65FL for the equivalent field of view of a 1800mm lens on a full frame DSLR, 1/200th second @ ISO 125, f8 effective (camera limited).

Processed for clarity and sharpness in Lightroom.