This flock of Canada Geese has just left its watering hole to fly against a Fall woodline for their morning meal. As you watch them prepare, you have to consider the direction of the wind to place yourself, because they normally turn into the wind for takeoffs.

Canon 5D Mark III with the 500L f4 lens with the 1.4 Extender II handheld @ 1/800, f 5.6, 400 ISO, +3 1/3 exposure compensation.

Top and bottom horizontals cropped away to give me my usual 8 x 16 format. In other words, there was no crop across the width of the image. With these flock images, there is always the problem of keeping the bird closest to you in focus so that you don't have out-of-focus birds in the foreground.

Cheers,

Mike