017:365 I Wish I Could Fly

My daughter Caron and I went for a wander down the canal today so that she could feed the swans and ducks...but despite walking a good amount of the canal there were none to be found so we ended up throwing the broken up half loaf of bread for the seagulls.

This is a full frame uncropped image, so i'm really happy with the framing, although i do feel it's a touch soft, mainly due to the shutter speed and the speed it was moving at, in hindsight i would have increased the ISO a touch to get a sharper image.

I'm beginning to quite like images of birds also, something i never ever though i would have.

003:365 A Swan Song

Today was an opportunity to add an outdoors image to my 365 project.

We're currently visiting the in-laws so I've brought the mini laptop and the camera gear and went for a little wander up by the canal (the union canal I believe) and between these images of the swans, which were taken with the nifty fifty, and we passed around 2 foot away from them.

The canal was frozen and this bit here was the only part with a break in the ice, even managed some images of broken bottles half in the ice etc, but I thought the swans made better subjects.

Shot at f2.8 1/2000 sec and ISO100.