Photo of the month 

June 2004 

CANADA GEESE - B045

(Branta canadensis)

Northern Michigan, USA - May

2.8/70-200 mm + 2x – ISO 400

Digital Capture 

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The beauty of simplicity is the content of this image.

I was enjoying a cold late May sunset over Lake Michigan: the water was dead calm and the melancholic calls of the loons were echoing in the air, when these pair of Canada Geese was flying low over the water surface.

I was lucky to have my medium telephoto zoom mounted with the 2x on the new EOS1Dmk2: achieving initial focus on the little silhouettes was almost immediate and framing them in the bottom right corner was very easy as the camera kept sharp focus on the subject.

After 5 or 6 shots I noticed that I had to even out my camera with the world to obtain an horizontal horizon (I was shooting handheld).