Pure Luck

I got a nice surprise yesterday...a case of pure photographic luck.

I was out with a friend taking pictures at a lake. Just for the heck of it, I took this photo of three mergansers swimming in a line. They were just a tad far away but I take these shots anyway just in hopes that maybe I can pull one bird out of the bunch for a nice image.

I took a series of these photos within seconds. So I have a bunch of them that look just the same. As you can see, this is a NOTHING special shot...totally uninteresting...should go right to trash bin.




But when I magnified the shot and looked at each bird individually, I saw that the leader had a fish!



My series shows this bird working to gulp down the fish...here's one. What LUCK!