One of my biggest lessons during this experience: I must graduate to larger canvasses!
coffee before I started (just after sunrise, though the lighting here doesn't look like it) - put my camera w self-timer on the ledge of that sign:
this photo shows the most accurate representation of the lighting at first:
It started out being a fun setting: a parking spot along Rt. 21 with a view of an inlet to the West River (just south of Canandaigua Lake). When I first pulled in, a family of geese (2 adults; 2 young ones) stayed very still (first photo taken through car windshield). As soon as I got out of the car they quickly & efficiently made their way to the water, plunked in one by one, and swam away. For a few moments their trail remained, creating sort of a curtain opening in the green duckweed covering the water's surface.
