Shot of the Week June 2019 – Iggy
Posted: Tue 11 Jun 2019, 09:33
SOTW June 2019 Iggy S22
S22 Goslings sitting to attention
Two Saturdays ago, I went to Morden Park in search of butterflies, but it was too busy with people.
At least I got to chat with the various nature and conservation groups that had stalls and even a laboratory with half a dozen microscopes.
Also visited Maidenhead Aquatics, a large tropical fish shop, a popular haunt of mine, when I was writing fish features for magazines.
On the way back, around 2 pm, I stopped to explore Mitcham Park for the first time ever.
Lots of woodland and open grass with sighting of four species of butterfly that were rather flighty.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a rather large pond even though it was not in the best of condition, where a few people were fishing.
Walked round to the quiet side of the pond where there were some Canada geese with goslings.
What do I do to get something a little different from these bunch of geese?
The large group of goslings were dozing.
First had to gently wake them up and get them to split up into smaller groups, all done from a distance.
Then had to get the adults to move out of shot without panicking them into the water.
Finally got the group of four goslings sitting to attention and watching me!
Took a good 15 to 20 minutes to get these goslings the way I envisaged them in my mind’s eye and then took some photographs.
Fortunately no disturbance from people when all this was going on!
S22 Goslings sitting to attention
Two Saturdays ago, I went to Morden Park in search of butterflies, but it was too busy with people.
At least I got to chat with the various nature and conservation groups that had stalls and even a laboratory with half a dozen microscopes.
Also visited Maidenhead Aquatics, a large tropical fish shop, a popular haunt of mine, when I was writing fish features for magazines.
On the way back, around 2 pm, I stopped to explore Mitcham Park for the first time ever.
Lots of woodland and open grass with sighting of four species of butterfly that were rather flighty.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a rather large pond even though it was not in the best of condition, where a few people were fishing.
Walked round to the quiet side of the pond where there were some Canada geese with goslings.
What do I do to get something a little different from these bunch of geese?
The large group of goslings were dozing.
First had to gently wake them up and get them to split up into smaller groups, all done from a distance.
Then had to get the adults to move out of shot without panicking them into the water.
Finally got the group of four goslings sitting to attention and watching me!
Took a good 15 to 20 minutes to get these goslings the way I envisaged them in my mind’s eye and then took some photographs.
Fortunately no disturbance from people when all this was going on!