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:
And that’s it for the exciting photos. You can find any other images here
you’re lucky the little bastards didn’t bite, swans are evil. they’re right up there with geese on the evil scale :[
The thought I had bread.
Bites != Bread.
The first on would have been nicer if the legs were kept in no marks for cropping here :P
lol, that’s actually how the photo came out, unfortunately.