Skating on thin ice

Hello,

My local nature reserve's lake has been frozen solid for days, but on Sunday as the weather was a few degrees warmer it had started to thaw - very slowly. There was around half an inch, maybe less, of water on the lake, and underneath it was still frozen solid. There were a number of resident swans who could not understand why they couldn't fly across the lake and land as normal - but they kept trying.

I caught a sequence of shots of this one adult trying to land on half an inch of water many times, it just would not give up

Made for a cheerful morning anyway..

techs

D300, Sigma 300-800mm at 480mm. ISO 450 1/500 second at 5.6 +EV 0.7

Processed in DXO Pro and Aperture

thanks for looking

Great action shot Colin. well captured.

Lee

Gorgeous pose and action well captured!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

An excellent action image and I could imagine that published with some witty headlines.
Robert

You did well here, an excellent action shot taken at just the right moment.

Well caught.

Great action, have also enjoyed watching skidding mallards and coots over here! Might take off the light band at the top