I kept running into the problem of daylight. In order to get good stopping/ freezing of rapid motion, a very fast shutter speed is required. This fast speed makes it so the sensor receives light for a very short amount of time, so in order to have a well-exposed image, there has to be a lot of light, even if the the ISO speed is at its maximum setting. My schedule kept working out so that I could take pictures either when it was cloudy or in the hours surrounding sunset, so I was always struggling to get a stop motion image. The best I have is a 1/500 second exposure of ripples on the surface of water.

I was hoping to be able to capture all of the more than 200 geese in a single images, but unfortunately, they were spread out more than they appear to the naked eye. If I captured them all in one image, they would all be incredibly small, so I used a zoom lens to capture only a few dozen of them in a series of images. This may have made the images appear more flat, but there was not an easy way to approach the geese since they were on the opposite side of the lake and likely would have fled if I did walk around.