Silhouette at sunset

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Silhouette at sunset

February 14, 2014 by Mike Powell

Whenever I am at my local marsh at sunset, I am alert for ducks and geese in the air. I have a goal of catching them in silhouette against the backdrop of the colorful sky. I still haven’t gotten the shot I am looking for, but here is one of my recent attempts.

Posted in Art, Birds, Landscape, Nature, Photography, wildlife, Winter | Tagged Alexandria VA, birds in flight, Canon 50D, Canon 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens, Huntley Meadows Park, silhouette, sunset | 9 Comments

9 Responses

on February 14, 2014 at 9:00 am | Reply Katherine Wikoff

Just beautiful!
on February 14, 2014 at 9:31 am | Reply Gill McGrath

pretty good attempt then!!!
- on February 14, 2014 at 8:22 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks. I like the way that this one turned out, but I’ll keep shooting in homes of a better image.
on February 14, 2014 at 7:36 pm | Reply naturesnippets

Your composition keeps the eyes going around and around, back and forth.
on February 14, 2014 at 7:56 pm | Reply judysbirds

Beautiful photo. Keep taking shots, and you’ll get just the one you want!
- on February 14, 2014 at 8:19 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks. That’s exactly my approach. With this kind of shot, you never quite know when you will capture “the one.”
on February 14, 2014 at 8:42 pm | Reply Sue

Really wonderful photo, Mike!
on February 15, 2014 at 8:31 am | Reply New Hampshire Garden Solutions

The trouble is, even when you get “the one” you immediately wonder if you couldn’t do better, but that’s part of what makes it so much fun for me.
- on February 15, 2014 at 9:23 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  I think that what drives many of us to take photos is to capture beauty and when we do so outdoors, there’s always a sense that it could be different and better (i.e. different light, pose, angle, or background). It’s not like I can say that I can stopping taking photos of a particular bird, for example, just because I have gotten good shots of it.