Every day brings something new. Just when you think everything is, well, kind of settled. Knowing today would be a later night in the office, I headed out for a bit of a walk by the lake in the afternoon. With the camera. Of course.
The egret was there, and allowed a reasonable close-up too. And then took flight. The surface of the water was like a mirror at times, rippled at others. And then along came the swan. The black swan. One half of the pair.
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| Egret elegance |
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| On reflection |
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| Black swan elegance |
The Black Swan. The swan of fairy stories. The swan of the ugly duckling story. There is one other black swan story I like telling too. Early on in my language studies I learnt the Japanese word for swan was 'hakucho' (白鳥), literally, white bird. Yes, white. So one day, I asked what is a 'black swan' then? It stumps many people. I had to explain it was a black 'white-bird'. Anyway, turns out the characters 'black-bird' can be put together for the 'unique Australian bird'. Still, it made for some fun philosophical discussions in the mean time.
What I learnt today about black swans is that they do have white feathers...
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| Exposed: white feathers |
...and they can be quite ruffled too.
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| Ruffled, for effect |
And because I wanted to experiment with the 18mm, one long shot of the east as the sun set in the west on another day.
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| Wide angle clouds |
There's always something new.
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 75-300mm, 18-55mm, 4.37pm-5.13pm (and 75 pics...)]
