Snow Can't Stop Me!

I was surprised to see a pair of seagulls flying around in the cold snowy weather. I grabbed my camera and went out on the deck to try to capture it, pleased that my zoom was already attached from my moon shots last night. Unfortunately, I forgot about the slower shutter speed. This was the best of the bunch which were all pretty blurry. I liked the angle flying toward me and, it felt like, looking straight at my camera. Processed in silver efex for a high key effect.
Photo in main album: http://365project.org/taffy/365/2014-01-16

[Nancy]

Snowbird..perfect white on white!

[Chris Stapleton]

Lovely whites

[Call me Joe]

and U can't stop me from fav'ng this cool shot either:)

[Caz]

Love the white on white !

[KWind]

Fabulous pov and white tones! Two giant blue herons were 40 feet from my window today chasing each other in circles. By the time I grabbed the camera they were gone, unfortunately!

[Taffy]

@kwind I can so relate! By the time I figured out the setting problem, I saw they came back, grabbed the camera and went out to do it right and they never showed up again! Thanks for the view and nice comment!

[jayn]

nice. like the brightness

[Donna]

Love the white on white, it's almost got a snowy owl look to the face, which I know is ridiculous for a gull, but I still see it :)

[April Milani]

So beautiful!

[Raye]

Incredible capture of the expression on his face! I agree with Donna on the snowy owl look, which I thought I was looking at in the small size. Beautiful brilliant whiteness...too cool!

[Taffy]

@rill Interesting you'd say that, Donna. When I showed it to Jim tonite, he looked at it and said the exact same thing!

[Elaine]

I like the high key effect of this together with the motion blur.

[Timothy]

awesome

[Donna]

@taffy So I'm not crazy :) Thank you Jim!

[Loopy-Lou]

Awesome, great capture and love the white on white.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Wonderful capture ,Taffy -- love the many shades of white , and most of all I love his direct gaze at your camera !!

[Ian]

The whiteness is so effective, great shot

[virtualbrownie]

Love the ghosted effect - great pov .

[Anja]

I like the white on white.

[Suse♡]

Some magical creature comes to mind, you have managed to create something very beautiful and unique out of something so ordinarily as seagull

[Morné Grewe]

cool shot!

[elkehochban]

Awesome shot! Love the high key, and the position of the bird in the frame.

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Elizabeth]

Seagull. Chicago. Snow? What a combination! Fabulous capture!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I like the blur- it gives me the sense he's coming right at you. And I like the high key too. I fav'd it!

[Mara]

The overall effect is great - the high key, the blur and the inclination of the head, looking at you, make the shot.

[John L]

Great capture.

[Nicole]

Awesome high key shot!! Love all the white light!!

[Penny Price]

What a super shot.

[Rachel Withey]

Love the high key, and I agree it looks owl-like

[Rachel]

love the white on white, stunning! fav

[Trudi Oliver]

What a lucky shot! Love the white and light a fav

[Jocasta]

Really like the high key and the bit of blur on the wings - the wrong settings has really been a good thing.

[Leon Buijs]

Great white on white, good use of negative space

[Molly]

I like the high key effect here. I'm always forgetting about the effect of too slow a shutter speed. Glad I'm not the only one!

[Steve]

Great high key shot with a touch of blurr...love it.

[Shelley]

Great capture. It does look like he's looking right at you.

[Pam Knowler]

I thought you had caught an owl st first glance! Great flight shot! Love the high key processing!

[Ross Walker]

I really have trouble making high key B&W work, but you do it well. Good catch.

[Nicole]

Love the effect of the high key and the motion!!