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Photo by Steven Shor
Ice Ballet
Geese put on a show at a local lake.
“As is often the case in photography, one has to be a bit lucky,” says Steven Shor of this photo, taken at the north side of Lake Wilmes in mid-April, 2013. “I often frequent the lake in early spring as the ice is beginning to melt. The ice was about half off the lake and I went down there because I heard some Canadian geese honking and making a racket. When I arrived, I saw two pairs of geese swimming around and then taking off and landing on the ice a short distance away. As they’d land, they’d slip around quite a lot just like we do, and they used their wings to try and stabilize themselves. I found it quite entertaining.”
Fortunately, Shor had his telephoto lens on his camera, and started taking some rapid succession (six frames per second) photos. “From the 40-50 shots, there were about six or seven that were interesting poses and in good focus,” he says. “I decided to combine three of them into one frame, so that one could get a sense for one of the landings.”
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Steven Shor’s photo earned first place in the Nature category in the 2013 Focus on Woodbury photo contest.
“As is often the case in photography, one has to be a bit lucky,” says Steven Shor of this photo, taken at the north side of Lake Wilmes in mid-April, 2013. “I often frequent the lake in early spring as the ice is beginning to melt. The ice was about half off the lake and I went down there because I heard some Canadian geese honking and making a racket. When I arrived, I saw two pairs of geese swimming around and then taking off and landing on the ice a short distance away. As they’d land, they’d slip around quite a lot just like we do, and they used their wings to try and stabilize themselves. I found it quite entertaining.”
Fortunately, Shor had his telephoto lens on his camera, and started taking some rapid succession (six frames per second) photos. “From the 40-50 shots, there were about six or seven that were interesting poses and in good focus,” he says. “I decided to combine three of them into one frame, so that one could get a sense for one of the landings.”
