Golden Skeins

[Arthur Morris]

My group at Bosque stayed fairly late and most of them headed back to Socorro. Things did not look to good but myself, two of my co-leaders--Robert O'Toole and Jim Heupel, and several in the group decided to stick it out for ten minutes more. We were justly rewarded as thousands of geese filled the golden sunset skies in long skeins.

This image was created with the Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens and the EOS-50D. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 2/3 stops: 1/400 sec. at f/5.6 in Av Mode.

Removed about eight geese from the frame edges and one merged group that just did not fit in the image.

Don't be shy; all comments welcome.

[Ron Caswell]

I like this Art, Very nice colors and the frame filled with geese is pleasing to the eye, Ron

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This is pretty cool. I like the composition, colors and clouds, the bands of birds add to it.

[Steve Canuel]

Very nice. I like the difference in light and texture of the upper clouds and the ones nearer the trees. Colors have a pleasing warm tone. Looking at the lines of the birds and the difference in their wing positions reminds me of reading sheet music. Lots of feeling to this one for me.

[Keith Bauer]

Artie: Nice image. A great example of wonderful images from the Bosque with "shorter" lenses. That 70-200 is on at the top of my wish list for the next lens in my bag. I really enjoy the textures and layers in this image.

[david cramer]

As Keith stated, great textures and patterns. The color doesn't hurt either.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Fantastic atmosphere, great colour and perfect exposure! Man I would love to visit that place one day..

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Chris,

Here's an invite: join me next year as a guest co-leader:

BOSQUE del APACHE 2010 IPT: “The Complete Bosque Experience.” NOV 20-26, 2009.Slide program on the evening of Friday, NOV 19. 7-FULL DAYS. Co-leaders: Robert O’Toole and Jim Heupel. Live, eat, and breathe photography with one of (if not the) world's premier photographic educators at his very favorite locations on the planet. Plus two great co-leaders and tons of Photoshop instruction.

[Keith Bauer]

"Here's an invite: join me next year as a guest co-leader: " -- OK. I'd love to join you as a guest co-leader. How can I engage with you to do that??

[Arthur Morris]

"Here's an invite: join me next year as a guest co-leader: " -- OK. I'd love to join you as a guest co-leader. How can I engage with you to do that??

You'd have to change your name to Chris Van Rooyen and bring along several BBC honored images :)

[Keith Bauer]

You'd have to change your name to Chris Van Rooyen and bring along several BBC honored images :)

Well, changing my name could be done, but a lot of hassle.. Don't have any BBC honored images yet.... Guess I'll keep toiling away to make some...

[Arthur Morris]

That is a very good plan!

[Harshad Barve]

Oho , wonderful color and great compo here , If I am not wrong , this will look great when printed big , I mean real BIG print , inspirational one
TFS

[Kiran Poonacha]

This sure is "Birds as Art" guru...

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks all for your kind words.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

A whole new perspective here , Artie . The colours are so natural !!

[Jay Gould]

Mate, I thought it was great when I first saw it - generally after everyone has commented since I am on the road (hello from Puerto Varas, Chile) - I didn´t comment this time.

HOWEVER, when I have now had the opportunity to see the original in the BAA Bulletin 308 - a comment is definitely required: Simply Magic!!

Thanks for sharing the transformation from "junk" - a technical term :) - to "elegant"!

Question: I do not understand you comment in the Bulletin

"I took it off the junk pile (after realizing that I could restore the sunrise colors after properly exposing the original and making it look drab). "

What did you make look drab? The transformed image is hot and beautiful!!

[Arthur Morris]

I think that this, the properly exposed original, qualifies as drab....