YAFS with 80-400vr - a NIKKOR shot for Gary. :-)

[KerryPierce]

Nikon D70 ,Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED VR AF
1/250s f/22.0 at 85.0mm ISO 200 hand held

[Greg B]

Great shot Kerry, love it. The bird coming in to land (or about to do what we call a "belly whacker") is great, the whole thing is excellent.

YAFS is troubling however

I put it into Google - crikey, the first ten hits are quite the variety!

I am pretty sure it doesn't mean any of them, what does it mean to you???

[KerryPierce]

Great shot Kerry, love it. The bird coming in to land (or about to do what we call a "belly whacker") is great, the whole thing is excellent.

Thanks Greg! To be truthful, my timing was off on this shot. I tracked that critter until I saw him flare for landing and locked E/F, recomposed the shot and tried to trip the shutter as he hit the sun flare in the water. Obviously, I missed...

YAFS is troubling however

I am pretty sure it doesn't mean any of them, what does it mean to you???

That's a term I learned on Photosig, some years ago. I'd put up a sunset shot that everyone seemed to like and it shot up to the front page, getting a huge score. After it hit the front page, the real critics came out. One of them used that acronym, which he explained was a derogatory term.

Yet Another F------- Sunset.... Hurt my sensitive peelings, he did.

So, I never forgot it.

[gstark]

Kerry,

Beautiful feel to this (and the other one you posted a couple of days ago).

I'm going to be bold and suggest that you probably took others at around the same time as this one; do you have without the foreground bird landing in the water, but with the bird gliding above the sun and the bridge ?

I think that would be the one!

[W00DY]

Hi Kerry,

The only thing I would change in this image is clone out the small bird in the top left corner. I find it leads my eye out of the image.

The other bird in the middle is perfectly placed.

W00DY

[sirhc55]

Kerry, it might be a YAFS but a very good one. It would have been nice to have seen the bird landing in the water as well

[KerryPierce]

Kerry,

Beautiful feel to this (and the other one you posted a couple of days ago).

I'm going to be bold and suggest that you probably took others at around the same time as this one; do you have without the foreground bird landing in the water, but with the bird gliding above the sun and the bridge ?

I think that would be the one!

heh, pretty sure bet that you made. I took about 300 pics over a 2 hour period that night. Unfortunately, I don't have a shot such as you describe. I didn't get a sequence burst set of this shot. I was afraid of hitting the buffer limit and missing the bird's wing flare entirely.

I've been trying to get these types of shots, every time I go there, but the stupid geese around here are uncooperative. They just don't appreciate an artiste at work....

[KerryPierce]

Woody, thanks for the comment. That bird would be easy to clone.

Chris, thanks for your comment as well. I agree, it would be cool to have one landing in that type of scene. I've tried, but not been successful thus far. Even bribery doesn't make these geese more receptive to flying appropriate flight patterns.

[Matt. K]

Hmmmm. Potatoes fried in goose fat!

[gstark]

Hmmmm. Potatoes fried in goose fat!

Foie gras, perchance?

[Matt. K]

Gary
So that's how you pick up the girls? A little French goes a long way!