27 February 2011

Geese at Hastings, Nebraska, February 27, 2011

Canada geese at Lake Hastings in Hastings, Nebraska, February 2011. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)
In late February, the geese were present in droves around Lake Hastings, and all I had to do was shoot from my car window as I drove around the lake. The difficulty is in finding order amid the chaos. I was drawn here to the strong shapes created by the geese’s necks. The shapes in the background are a few hundred more birds on the ice. I softened the photo in post, which further separates the sharp foreground geese from the background.