A spring walk around Bend Oregon a few days ago led me to some feathered friend photography. Armed with just my standard 18-55mm lens on my Nikon D3300 here is what I was able to capture.

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Since I didn't have my telephoto lens with me I went ahead and cropped this shot down quite a bit to get a "close up". I did notice that this guy was wearing a little jewelry by sporting an ankle bracelet. 😀

This is an image to give you a little idea of where these geese were hanging out. We are walking across a bridge over the Deschutes River. This part of the river has a small dam that forms the slack water you see here called Mirror Pond. Aptly named I might add. The little park on the far right is where the geese were.

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They walked toward the river like they were going to jump in but never did. I think these geese must be pretty used to people. I usually can't get this close to them without them flying off or swimming away.

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In the end I was able to get to within about 3 feet of this guy to get this picture. After that I gave him my thanks and we contimued on with our walk. 😀

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Photos taken by me, @oldmans, with a Nikon D3300 and some Lightroom post processing.
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