Tag: geese

This Time of the Year, Again

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We had a hot and dry spring, a summer with a wet spell and then hot again. I’ve been enjoying the hot weather tremendously, much more than in recent years for very personal reasons. The heat has come back last week and I took delight in the weather during the last week of my holidays. I took my bike out this afternoon and cycled down the road in the summer sun – when these guys stopped me short.

“Noooooo! Not yet!!”

The geese in the meadow are a stark reminder of summer’s end. These geese will be fattened up for another two months or three to be served either on as traditional goose at Martinmas or as Christmas dinner. Time waits for no one. Not for summer. Not for the geese. Not for me.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Time

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St Martin Is Drawing Near

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The original photo.
  • A
  • B
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The photoshopped versions are all cropped.  
A   I changed the shot to monochrome but applied selective colouring to the orange of the beak and the area around the eye. 
B   No change to shot A except the selective colour has been changed from orange to blue. 
C   The focus around the head of the goose in the centre has been kept but the rest of the photo is taken out of focus. 
D   I used lunapic.com to change the photo into a picture in the style of Rembrandt.

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in November

A wild goose chase

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What started out as an argument (or possibly a bullying incident)

amongst domestic geese

turned into a wild fracas

before settling down again when everyone left.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Fracas.

Preparing for St Martin

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After falling off my bike I haven’t been out much (except for work) and my camera has mostly stayed in its bag. But I’ve been back in the saddle for a couple of days now and yesterday on my way from the dentist (only a check-up) I made a detour and I came across this meadow with about 200 geese – being fattened up for St Martin’s and Christmas … thinking about it like this is kind of depressing.

Linked to Bushboy’s The Last on the Card Challenge.