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I always had rather a soft spot for geese. There used to be a small gaggle of them on the Cemetery Lake, on the Common, opposite my old place in Southampton. Back in the days of film, they were always excellent models to shoot off the last few frames of a film. And they seemed to like having their photos taken. These were mostly taken during 1995 and 1997 on a mix of cameras including a Canon Epoca and a Pentax ME Super.<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

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This has been posted retrospectively. This images were originally taken and scanned from 35mm film to appear in articles I was writing at the time. A few appeared in the New Millennium ezine. But most were uploaded into the old Coppermine media library and forgotten, So I dug them out of the archives, cleaned them up a bit and reposted them all here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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