Swan C&C

Cabaal

Nothing major really, walking home yesterday and had my camera with me so took a few shots.

Just wanted suggestions for the one below, I've done some slight edits in lightroom.

Original



Edited


Larger version and others on flickr

Thirdfox

I like the swan in the back try to break the bread eating swan's neck!

Perhaps it should have been a bit more off center? (To the right to show more of the biting swan in the back...)

Nice pic!

Cabaal

Yeah only noticed that after I took the shot, there pretty evil to each other when there being fed as they keep snapping at each other and they kept chasing the small ducks away.

Infact this little lad felt he was being ganged up on so much he had to dive to get away when all the swans circled him, even after he dived one or two stuck there heads in looking for him.

here's two unedited shots before and after of the scene

Thirdfox

Big birds can be vicious! They use guard geese in the Netherlands as I recall...

Eirebear

Thirdfox wrote:

Big birds can be vicious! They use guard geese in the Netherlands as I recall...

Yeah they use gueard geese quite often in a lot of places...not so much for the viciousness, but for the sheer noise theyll make when they are disturbed, which in turn brings the poor robber to the attentiof the big snarling doberman who lives behind them!
As for the picture, i quite like it, the edit has certainly brought out the colour of the bird well.

kensutz

Cabaal they're not down by the Waterside are they? My father told me I should go down there to try out the new camera because some swans were around there.

Cabaal

kensutz wrote:

Cabaal they're not down by the Waterside are they? My father told me I should go down there to try out the new camera because some swans were around there.

I took them around the back of the Tower Hotel (scotch quay area?),

You can get some nice shots around 5.30-7.00 when the sun is setting and there's always about 10-15 swans there as well as seagulls who go bloody crazy when you throw food at them

trishw78

Don't they use Geese to guard is the Jameson's Brewery or is it the Bushmills Brewery.

Edit: I like the second shot there's more colour in it.