Snow Geese in Flight
On November 23, 2013 by lightshedder With 0 Comments
- action, animals, birds, Bosque del Apache, flight, New Mexico, p&s 4 wildlife, Pic of the Day, wildlife
It was cold and cloudy all day yesterday…not typical weather for the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache NWR. In fact I can only remember one Festival in the past 30 years with a similar cold and threat of snow. The Geese were hunkered down close the the ground for the most part, and the Cranes feed quietly, stoic, in the cold.
Terrible light for photography, especially flight photos.
Except when you catch a shot like this, where the subdued light allows a full range exposure of the white plumage of the goose, set of nicely against the gray patterned sky.
Canon SX50HS in Sports Mode. f5.6 @1/800th @ ISO 800. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.