Season Hunt Challenge - LOVE (Winter Hunt)

I think everybody knows that swans stay together for their entire life.

Season Hunt Challenge - Winter Hunt - FROSTY-ICY

LOVE
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Before I begin, let me tell you about the Season Hunt: since the beginning of Autumn, Barbara Orenya | @barbara-orenya is hosting a Challenge in the FeelGood Community:

Season Hunt

Every week a new theme is announced which suits to the actual season. At the moment we are having the Winter Hunt and this week's theme is:

LOVE
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When I have seen the theme of this week's hunt I thought "no way, I will not be able to have a successful hunt this week", but then I remembered the two swans I have photographed last weekend ... "swans mate for life and if that's not love, then I don't know what love is".

Season Hunt Challenge - Winter Hunt - LOVE

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So my plan for yesterday morning was simple: Go there again and take some more fresh photos of a swan couple.

Now you might wonder why there are more images of the swans from last week and no new photos.
Well, there have been swans and wow, the morning sun made the water shining golden as you will see a bit later, but unfortunately there was no couple alone, except of two in quite a distance, so this is why I begin this post with the two swans in love from last weekend.

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As said in the beginning, swans mate for life. This reminds me on a sad story: on a morning walk while ago, I have met a lone swan, that has not been alone the weekend before. Of course I don't know the swans I see on my walks, but I am sure that I have never seen a lone swan there before. And he was crying, he was calling for his wife all the time. It was so sad to see him searching and crying and I couldn't help. Unfortunately, I can't remember what happened to the swan later, because next weekend he was gone, I believe.

In the image below I love the golden glimmer on the water most. The sun was just peeking over the mountains, but the warm sunlight was already reflected in the water.

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The swans I'm posting today are Mute Swans (Cygnus Olor - Wikipedia). The plumage of the youngsters is more gray-brown as well as the beak is also gray. Later their beak gets orange and after two years the swans will turn into the white swans we all know.

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While they are cleaning themselves in the mornings the swans sometimes fly up, maybe to dry their plumage or because they are happy that the cold night is over, but I have no idea, to be honest.

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Have you seen the golden water in the photos above? The sun really has turned the usually green or blue water into a lovely golden fluid as you can see better in my last two images below.

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So, that was my hunt for this week. I know it's more a post about swans than about Love, but hey, when they love they love forever - who among us can claim that?

Wishing you all a Happy Valentine's Day

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All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6,3 DG OS HSM C.
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