As Flock Would Have It [Rf Photo of the Day]

Photo © Lindsey Zovko

Lindsey Zovko and these newlyweds had just wrapped up portraits in an orchard at The Market at Grelen, a 300-acre venue in Somerset, Virginia, when they decided to take to the hills for some sunset shots. All of a sudden they heard the sound of geese flying overhead, and Zovko, walking next to the couple, snapped a shot as they whizzed by. “The resulting image was of the couple facing me and looking up, with only a few geese in the frame,” the photographer recalls. “I immediately felt myself wishing I had been further away from the scene, imagining that I could have created an image that really combined the beauty of the land, the geese and the feeling of awe coming from the couple!”

Then, seemingly reading her mind, a second flock of geese arrived in the distance. This time, Zovko was ready. She had “just enough time to distance myself from the couple and ask them to face the sky expectantly as they held hands,” she says. “While we waited for the flock, I focused on the two of them and released the shutter once the geese were directly overhead. Though the sunset hues were beautiful, I didn’t want the vibrant colors to distract from the geese amidst the clouds, so I chose to edit the image in black and white.”

(Shot with a Canon 5D Mark III and a Sigma 35mm lens.)

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