Swans, bloody swans
I originally went out today to try and photograph waves breaking on rocks at Claddagh beach, but the tide was fully in by the time I got out and the lack of cover at the beach was disheartening. I started out with my big 28-200mm lens at some seagulls, but I wasn’t happy with the photos I was getting, so I swapped it for my 18-55mm and went over to the swans, where I made an ass of myself by crawling around through puddles, poop and Unspeakably Worse Things to get a good photo.
I read an article in a magazine yesterday about a man who used a wide angle lens to catch birds in flight from a few feet away (he shot over his wifes shoulder, who threw bread at them), so I got right up underneath a few swans, who just sat there and staring at me expectantly for bread. Fie to that. I came away with two photos I’m really happy with and a few more I’m not so happy with:
I like this photo the most
And that’s it for the exciting photos. You can find the rest here
16. January 2007 at 00:20
you’re lucky the little bastards didn’t bite, swans are evil. they’re right up there with geese on the evil scale :[
16. January 2007 at 22:29
The thought I had bread.
Bites != Bread.
17. January 2007 at 16:07
The first on would have been nicer if the legs were kept in no marks for cropping here :P
17. January 2007 at 23:08
lol, that’s actually how the photo came out, unfortunately.