A couple of days ago I featured a photo of Canada Geese coming in for an early morning water landing in a posting I called Photo Finish. So many people made positive comments about the photo that it prompted me to take another look at the other photos from that morning. I played around with one of them and decided to post the result.
The overall effect in this image is similar to the previous photo, but in this one you can see some reflections in the water. Tonally, it has more brown in it. It’s a bit muddy in appearance, but it still conveys the sense of motion of the geese in flight and the panning stripped away all of the excess details in the background. I recommend that you click on the image to get a higher resolution view.
Coming in for a landing
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Mike Powell 
This definitely captures the sense of movement. Well done.
Thanks. Usually my goal is to get as sharp an image as I can, so I am a little confused and conflicted when I end up with an image that I simultaneously really like and consider deleting because it’s not very sharp. I guess this is why photography is as much an art as a science.