Not mine – well, not exactly – but a memory this little girl may have of her warm August day in the Boston Public Garden. It wasn’t until I uploaded the pictures of my trip that I noticed I caught the little girl with her eyes closed – darn! But even with that it is still, in my opinion, perfectly imperfect. Upon closer inspection (which you may or may not be able to see) you can see a trail of water drops from the foreground swan ending in the circular ripple in the water right by its chest. This image does elicit a childhood memory of my own when I was at the zoo with my father and I was feeding the ducks some of my popcorn. I really didn’t want to feed them my popcorn (loved it then, love it now, hog it often) but dad made me to in order to get his photo. Plus I was afraid the ducks would bite me. Childhood memories… 🙂
The color image . Click to view larger.
Images by T.Dashfield Photography 
What a sweet photo! I liked both versions. The black-and-white has a lovely, vintage feel. “Make Way for Ducklings” comes immediately to mind.
When I lived in Cottage Grove, Oregon, we used to take my older daughter (then about four; now twenty-nine) and feed ducks and geese on the Coast Fork of the Willamette River. The geese were very aggressive and sometimes drove us all away.
The Make Way for Ducklings statues were on the other side of this pond/lake and kids were all over them! Geese can be meanies at times. And thank you for your comment 🙂
Great capture, Teri. Swans can be mean, too. Once, while on vacation at a lakeside cabin, a pair chased Sis and me and our dog off of the beach. The ugly duckling apparently didn’t improve much with age.
Swans and geese can be some temperamental critters.
this little girl probably has her eyes closed either in delight or terror that they will take her whole hand! swans can be mean! wonderful shot.. c
LOL! Thanks. I will go with your reason for her eyes being closed and not that I happen to hit the button at just that moment.
Great photo Teri…as much as I liked the color version (I’m a color guy) in this case I really like the B&W version better. I like the mood it invokes. And for me this version actually does bring back a lot of memories. Ahhh to be a kid again…
Yeah…getting snow days off and driving out parents batty being at home. hehehe