thephotosocietyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (thephotosocietyInstagram)「Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety Mute swan wing stretching – This image, in keeping with the overwhelming majority of my images, comes from a combination primarily of luck but also a detailed knowledge of my subject. This adult male had just chased off an unwelcome visitor in the shape of his arch nemesis, the Canada goose and as it so often the case after a territorial pursuit the male engaged in some bathing. I don’t know if it’s some kind of celebratory, pleased with oneself kind of bathing or whether it has more mundane motivations such as attending to his own plumage but I have noticed on multiple occasions that one always follows the other. The lucky part of course is many fold. Firstly it’s the area of the lake in which the adult decided to rear up, and the fall of light upon it but also the angle at which he decided to rear. I know from experience just what a large percentage of this is luck because of all the times in the past that one of these variables was missing, the result at that stage is always that I end up with no useable images. Of course this image could perhaps have been improved had I managed to turn the camera into portrait orientation, thereby including all of the abstract nature of its reflective form but in the absence of the necessary speed to respond it is at least still an image with which I am pleased. The last remaining residue of dawn mist is still shrouding parts of the lake and the ‘conductor-like’ position of the wings resulting solely from the speed of my motor-drive and nothing to do with any anticipatory skill. In recent days the weather has been acutely against me but should a calm spell of clear, dry and windless weather return then it will be nice to see how the cygnets are growing, and whether the original six still remain. @thephotosociety @andyparkinsonphoto」6月4日 6時13分