Another Goose

[Stu Bowie]

Although we consider these Egyptian geese common, annoying, and loud, they always seem to produce great inflight, or incoming poses. This was taken at my local pond 2 weekends ago.

Canon 1D Mark IV
100-400 @ 365mm
1/2500
F/6.3
ISO 640

Exp Comp 0
Hand held

[Steve Canuel]

Looking good Stuart. Like the wing spread, raised feet, and pointed head. Not that you needed it but glad to see you got a new camera to play with.

[Robert Holguin]

Stunnig shot. I just love the wing position, wonderful light, the calm water makes a great background, and excellent feather detail.
Well done.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Stu you are producing some really high quality images here, great stuff! I love the pose and the techs are spot, a really pleasing image.

[gail bisson]

Very nice Stuart!!
I like the bands of color in the water.
Great pose (love the feet and fanned tail)and light as well.
Comp is excellent as well.
Gail

[Ken Watkins]

Stuart,

Great pose yet again, if you are not careful you will make this bird popular

[Daniel Cadieux]

He he, what you describe about this species is similar to our Canada Goose here :-) Excellent pose, colours, techs. Not crazy about the darkish band directly underneath the subject (wondering what caused that?), but all else looks super.

[Chris Kotze]

Super incoming pose captured, well exposed and great colours

[Marina Scarr]

Killer landing pose and light, Stuart. The BG really complements the bird.

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice flight pose and colours, Stuart.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for the kind words everyone.

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Sharp, well exposed, love the feet up pose. I was concerned when looking at the thumbnail that the head /body merge wouldn't work well, but in the full size image, there is good separation.

Cheers

Randy

[Markus Jais]

Stunning flight shot with perfect wing spread!

Markus

[Oscar Dewhurst]

Yes, great shot; good wing position, light, and colours

Oscar

[dankearl]

Another terrific shot, Stuart. Very nice pose and details.
You always seem to get great BG's to go with these guys.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much for the feedback everyone. Always appreciated.

[Peter Seidel]

Your shots always seem to have so much great detail - this is no different. Would be nice if the head were just a little bit higher, but that is nitpicking. Wing detail is top-notch.

Pete