Why should you bother yourself with forcing to use 50mm?
If I may say: in this shot the background is so full of details and light objects, reflecting in the water, that the goose in fact doesn't get the attention you probably would give to it... Goose and village on the hill are now both shouting for attention.
@djepie I saw it like a landscape, looked from left to right as the terrain gets higher and my eyes lowered automatically to the reflection and the goose was a real pleasant surprise.
I know what you mean about the busy photo, but in this example i really like it.
Jaap and Moni Thank you both for your comments. It is good that we see and interpret things differently. I agree that the background is "busy" and maybe I could have shot with a larger aperture to blur it a bit. On the other hand maybe the image tells us that we are surrounded by so much stress and chaos in our every day life that we need to learn to chill out and relax every once in a while. Just like the swan in the foreground is showing us :-)
So, the goose is a swan... :D I really wrote 'swan' first, but then I remembered seeing 'goose' in the other comment, and on looking back at the photo, it did not look like the swans I knew (black or white). Ignorance is bliss...
And oh my, do I love your interpretation of the composition! I still think it is a great photo and I would be well pleased had I taken it.
@monikozi Thank you Moni, The swan is a young one; born last summer. They are grey when they are born and only starts gradually turning white after around 6 months.
If I may say: in this shot the background is so full of details and light objects, reflecting in the water, that the goose in fact doesn't get the attention you probably would give to it... Goose and village on the hill are now both shouting for attention.
I know what you mean about the busy photo, but in this example i really like it.
@djepie @monikozi
And oh my, do I love your interpretation of the composition! I still think it is a great photo and I would be well pleased had I taken it.