Wakes and bow waves

Hello all. A few more form the pond... I'm keen to get a bit more 'behavioural' type shots rather than straightforward portraits - although yesterday the behaviour on the pond was mostly lethargic (perpetuated by a spot of bread-snaffling). Although I did end up with a few shots which seem to have the theme of wakes or bow waves in the water... so I concentrated on the patterns in the water as well as the birds themselves

First up, A coot gives it some gas



Before really stepping on it (this is also in the gallery)



A Canada Goose leaves a rather splendid wake



and a Mallard does a bit of a turn



Finally, bare-facedly adding in a cute coda at the end, a Canada Gosling creates a tiny bow wave...



I hope you like these. Any C&C welcomed as ever. Not sure whether these quite work but i shall keep plugging away. They were all taken with the Sigma 100-300 on my K-7

Regards

I think number two is really well caught. I like that.

Mat,

The colours and movement in the water certainly add a significant amount of interest. Nos two and three for me.

No. 2 is a shot I have been trying to take for ages. Top snapping.

Love the gosling

Thanks all for the comments. I would have liked to have them all in colour but the ones I converted to B/W were because the water was a pretty uninspiring brown colour (like in the last shot only worse) and I think that the B/W works better, although I added a slight blue tint...

Regards

B/W can work fine for certain arcitectual images, but I must admit I don't like it for nature shots such as your ducks. For this type of images colour always works best imho.