Goose Does the Yoga Sun Posture!

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Well, almost. Say, I know 12 noon on a sunny day is not the best lighting to take a picture of a white goose, so I am not going to enter any of these in contests, but it wasn't until I got home and examined the pictures that I realized that

GEESE DO YOGA

First of all, spring was definitely in the air with this pair!


Then the salute to the sun begins-- I learn so much through photography







Now here are goose variations on the yoga, with left and right neck stretches-






Finally, a little bit on the left





Then, the final meditation pose

[dynasaw]

1. Not Such a Far Out Idea . . .

After all exercise/meditation programs like Tai Ch'i are based on movements of animals and birds.

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2. The Salute to the Sun

People may not be all that familiar with the poses in the Salute to the Sun,

so, here is a pictural representation......... Anatomically, geese and humans can't do the exact same things, of course, but the first three goose poses definitely remind me of the first three human things.

[Mira]

6. Hi there, good point you are making, and welcome to DU and this forum N/T

[Mira]

3. Beauty is where we find and call it! And you did. This is not only showing how

much fun you and the goose had, it surely shows her well being in the end and she says
"OM"

Great shots that make me happy to see.

Reminds me of a peak experience I once had, seeing Jane Fonda do the sun salutation on a video tape.
Maybe 20 years ago, that it was filmed, but being JFonda it could have been 10.
I can appreciate and go ape over perfection, and that was a piece of it.

Your goose comes real close.

:)

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4. Aw, that was a sweet reply

Plus, I pretty much went hysterical with laughter imagining what Jane Fonda would feel like being compared to a goose.

:evilgrin:

What I *really* noticed was how so many of the geese were paired up. It was only when I got home and looked at the pictures that I figured out the Salute to the Sun thing.

[Mira]

5. I figured that the recognition of the sun salute was an afterthought in evaluating the

Photos.
You know what, I think in the vast recesses of my brain I think geese are sort of monogamous.
I'm gonna dig out that Jane Fonda tape and see it again.
She is a cool cat, she would not at all mind the comparison - her book "My life so far" was very insightful for the writer and the reader.
We call the goose "Jane".

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7. Jane's best film role, IMHO

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065088/

Well, you have to be in the mood to get depressed--depression era depressed.

[Mira]

8. That was an excellent movie ! I cried.

Then there were "Klute" - "Cat Ballou" - and "Coming Home" (but that one has Jon Voight in it as well and he has since gone bad)

:)

[ellenfl]

9. nice pics! i have two in my neighborhood duck pond.

i think yours are both male like mine. mine are inseparable. here's a pic of 'my' kids.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2875542310017605020ZfaYnV

ellen fl

[Fumesucker]

10. FWIW, those are "Swan Geese"..

And I like #4 a lot, with the outstretched wings..

One of my local parks has a flock of these guys, they hang out there a lot, I've never been there and not seen them.

[ellenfl]

11. they are more commonly known as 'china geese'. eom

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12. Thanks for the names!

Both (Chinese, swan geese) seem to fit, as I looked up on Google images........

Is the bump on the nose the tipoff that they are male? Actually one of my pictures seems to have no bump on the nose. Guess I had a couple of different geese doing yoga.

Thanks for your pics!

[ellenfl]

15. i tried to find some female chinese geese and the pics i

found had no bump at all. i still think your two in the first pic are male. otoh, i hope you end up with some goslings! i think both of mine are male but i keep hoping for babies. :eyes:

btw, how can i post my pic inline like you did?

ellen fl

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16. Start a free account at Photobucket.com

Then after you upload your pictures there, all you do is post the link to the picture, usually ending with jpg or whatever, and it just posts automatically. To do more than one picture, you just post a bunch of different links.

To check to see if it is working, I always have to click on preview.

That explanation may either be too detailed or not detailed enough, so PM me if you have any more questions. For the longest time I had no idea how to post pictures on DU. I thought people that could do that were geniuses, LOL.

[ellenfl]

17. i linked to my webshots account but it came out as a link, not

the picture. do i add '.jpg' to the link to make it show up in the post?

thanks.

ellen fl

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18. Let.s see if this works

Okay, for some reason (I kept clicking on that image various ways, so don't ask me how I did it, various right and/or left clicks), something came up that said link to this image, so, I clicked on that, and it gave me this address. So, I am trying it. Photobucket always shows how to do it. You can fiddle with the image on the website and most likely figure it out, since I did it accidentally, sort of. Yikes, it is too small. (?????) You can put this on a free Photobucket account, though, too.

[ellenfl]

19. cool! i'll check out photobucket. i rarely use webshots

so switching won't be hard.

ellen fl

[Mz Pip]

13. Lovely

wish I were as limber as that goose. :-)

What kind of lens did you use? Looks like you're right next to the critters.

Mz Pip

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14. well, I actually WAS right next to them

Seriously, I had to back up to get their pictures, practically. Most of the geese and ducks are tame, but these particular ones were ridiculous.

It was the Powershot SX10IS--the zoom lens that comes with it. I didn't need much zoom, except on the face/neck closeups.