This weeks Challenge
”All Creatures Great and Small”
My Photos
It was raining the day I took these photos and the back of the goose is covered with tiny raindroplets. It’s a truth, like water off a ducks back.
This magnificent creature is a Canadian Goose. I fell in love with them the first time I ever saw one and that is so long ago I can’t tell you when it was. This particular goose is on the lake at Lake Isabella and it’s hurt. Notice the prominent lift on the back, a damaged wing. A car? the oar of a boat? I haven’t a clue.
One of my favorite movies is “Fly Away Home”. It’s a thrilling movie derived from a true story which includes some of the ways people are helping the wild flocks to come back.
One of my favorite books is James Michner’s “Chesapeake” and it’s a multi layered story of the Chesapeake area from prehistory and includes a sad but true tale of the history of Canadian Geese here in the states.
This glorious bird flew in flocks of thousands migrating Summer and Winter to and from areas it fed and bred in. Those thousands upon thousands has dwindled to a small percentage of what it was.
This particular goose has been reduced to feeding on what is dropped for the amusement of park goers and it is always in danger of becoming tangled in the fising line of careless and uncaring fishermen who frequent the lake. I imagine it will end up on someone’s supper table or fox food. I have no problem with eating wild things and never have but I do have a problem with driving them into extinction.
Like so much of wildlife, this goose has taken a back seat in importance in communities who see them as a nuisance because of their droppings or in general, their existence. Man has so much to learn.
I play in a graphics group and this image was given by a member with the instruction to remove the tigress from the penned area and put her into another environment.
This is one of my replacement environments. I titled it
“One False Move and Lunch”. I thought you might like to see it.
Have a great week and keep taking your photos.
This magnificent creature is a Canadian Goose. I fell in love with them the first time I ever saw one and that is so long ago I can’t tell you when it was. This particular goose is on the lake at Lake Isabella and it’s hurt. Notice the prominent lift on the back, a damaged wing. A car? the oar of a boat? I haven’t a clue.
One of my favorite movies is “Fly Away Home”. It’s a thrilling movie derived from a true story which includes some of the ways people are helping the wild flocks to come back.
One of my favorite books is James Michner’s “Chesapeake” and it’s a multi layered story of the Chesapeake area from prehistory and includes a sad but true tale of the history of Canadian Geese here in the states.
This glorious bird flew in flocks of thousands migrating Summer and Winter to and from areas it fed and bred in. Those thousands upon thousands has dwindled to a small percentage of what it was.
This particular goose has been reduced to feeding on what is dropped for the amusement of park goers and it is always in danger of becoming tangled in the fising line of careless and uncaring fishermen who frequent the lake. I imagine it will end up on someone’s supper table or fox food. I have no problem with eating wild things and never have but I do have a problem with driving them into extinction.
Like so much of wildlife, this goose has taken a back seat in importance in communities who see them as a nuisance because of their droppings or in general, their existence. Man has so much to learn.
I play in a graphics group and this image was given by a member with the instruction to remove the tigress from the penned area and put her into another environment.
This is one of my replacement environments. I titled it
Comments (16)
Neat!! I like “one false move…”
Wonderful photos! I love the graphic you created!!
I love the last photo of the goose. And ‘one false move’ is great! ha!
Exquisite Becca – Clear and well defined- you can see every feather in detail. Each phot definitely tells a story of more than a thousand words. The job you did on the Tigress was truly amazing. I have done that challenge too, and know full well it was one of the hardest challenges set. Also I happen to know that the person who set that challenge did it purposely to sort the men out from the boys, as the phrase goes, and I know it certainly did that, so I take my hat off to you Becca.
I really love the crispness to this pictures. The one false move is amazing. Beautiful!
That last one of the goose is truly awesome.
I’ve been MIA for awhile but your photos are always so magnificent!
Those goose pictures are amazing – the water looks like a hundred sprinkled diamonds. Especially the 4th and 6th pictures.
I enjoyed looking =)
~icecradle
I’ve just spotted trouble.
1, 5 & 6 would be my fav’s, the are just gorgeous.
Beautiful Becca, great to see the droplets of water on the goose.
Clever bit of manipulation on the tiger. We get Canada geese in the fields around here in spring and further east we have friends who live near a largish lake. Whole flights of them skim the rooftops as they wing in to roost on the lake at night after a day in the fields.
Beautiful shots. I live the photos of the Canadian geese. They are beautiful. I watch them on the river every Spring with thier babies and they are the best parents on the river.
Thanks Becca for the photos of canadian geese ; it is the first time I see them so well . I hope the specie is not threatened .
I liked the last photo with the environment made by you for the tiger. It’s much better than a fence ! However the deer is really close of the tiger !!
Love
Michel
EXCELLENT! I like the photos and the way you presented them on the page.
It is a pleasure to look again at those rare and amazing pictures .
I hope all is well , Becca
Love
Michel