February 4

Lots of activity today as we walked past the pond.  I was interested in what this goose (gander?) was doing.  There was a lot of weird honking, and then this display.  So he's courting, and that goose in front of him is the object of his affections.  If you ask me, she doesn't look all that thrilled with the whole thing, but then I'm not a goose, so what do I know.  And he does have an impressive wingspan.

September 13

I know that huge flocks of geese fly around the West Davis Pond every morning, and land with a ruckus at around 9:15.  What I can't seem to do is properly time the dog walk so I'm already at the pond for the landing.  Another near miss today.  It's a fault of mine, but I'm not a patient photographer.  I don't want to wait around for half and hour for the geese to come in, so they really have to land while I'm walking past. Maybe I'll catch this in the near future, but I'm posting it today anyway because I like this composition.  f/4.5 at /1000, ISO400, 200mm.

September 5

We picnicked tonight at Lagoon Valley Regional Park.  I was figuring on taking a much more "valley oak" type of photo, but I made the mistake of sitting with my back to the sun as we ate.  So all of a sudden I realized that the sun was going down and my camera was in the car!  Luckily there are hundreds of geese swimming around here.  Usually in big groups like this too.  So I ended up with an m.c.escher type photo instead.  Since this is an after sunset photo, I'm thinking maybe I should have overexposed a bit more to make the "white" parts a little whiter.  This is not a black and white photo...that's just how the light was.  Pretty flat actually.  Thank goodness for the pretty patterns on the water and that nice geese formation!  f/5.6, 1/400, ISO400, 105mm.