Sometimes you don’t have to make a choice between two options—you can have them both.
In this morning’s blog posting, I posed the question, “When it comes to images of birds in flight, do you prefer the sky as the background or some element of the earth?” and I received quite a few responses, with a greater number having a preference, in general, for background or contextual elements rather than a plain blue sky.
Sometimes I manage to get an image that incorporates the best of both worlds. This image, for example, has one Canada Goose against a leafy background, one against the sky, and one in between.
Who says you have to choose? (In the interest of full disclosure, I intentionally set up the question as a false dichotomy in order to stimulate thinking. For me, the best answer to the question I posed, which called on you to make a sweeping overgeneralization, was the person who responded quite simply with the words, “It depends.”)
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Nice balance of both choices – overa
ll a great image. M
Thanks. When I posted the earlier photos, I hadn’t even seen this one yet (I am behind in looking at what I have shot). As soon as I saw the image on my computer screen, though, I knew what I wanted to say about it.
Best one yet!
Thanks, Sue. Sometimes I get so focused on trying to get in close with either a telephoto or macro lens that I forget to look for the shots like this that show more context.
Beautiful shot. Not only has the varied texture and composition, the focus also is crisp and clear.
Thanks. This was one of the times when I was able to track the moving birds pretty accurately (which is often not the case). I took quite a few images and this one captured best the transition from the tree level to the sky.
Great photograph. I had a strange flash back when I saw it of something I would have said I had forgotten. When I was a child it was very popular to have three china flying geese on the wall as a decoration. It’s many, many years since I have seen it but your photograph brought back memories.