{"id":80517,"date":"2020-01-11T06:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=80517"},"modified":"2020-01-11T07:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:10:38","slug":"canada-goose-the-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/canada-goose-the-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Goose – “The Executioner”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing serious today, just a little whimsy on Silly Saturday.<\/p>\n

Some blog followers may remember that two of my direct Dudley ancestors were beheaded at the Tower of London in the 16th century. Sir Edmund Dudley<\/a> lost his head in 1510 and his son John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland<\/a>, suffered the same fate 43 years later in 1553.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the Tudors were particularly fond of my Dudley ancestors.<\/p>\n

I believe my unfortunate family history, which I’m fascinated by so it’s always close to the surface of my consciousness, explains my reaction to the following photo that was taken two days ago at a local pond.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

The goose in the middle had just popped up onto the ice from the water directly behind it when I took the photo. As they often do in this situation the bird immediately flapped its wings and my shutter fired when they were in a perfectly horizontal position and almost directly above its two grooming companions.<\/p>\n

But every time I look at the photo it reminds me of an executioner at the Tower of London trying to lop off the heads of his victims who have ducked in an attempt to avoid the axe (if a goose can duck I wonder if a duck can goose…). Those wings look like they may have whizzed directly over the tops of both grooming geese.<\/p>\n

For other viewers that imagery may be a stretch but it comes to me without fail.\u00a0And it makes me smile.<\/p>\n

For me the title of this photo will always be “The Executioner”.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: Twenty minutes after publishing this post the link email to blog subscribers still hasn’t been sent out. Usually it happens immediately. Come on WordPress, get your act together! <\/em><\/p>\n

(It finally arrived, 42 minutes late).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nothing serious today, just a little whimsy on Silly Saturday.<\/p>\n

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