Monday, April 28, 2014

DAY 273: BEAUTIFUL WHOOPER SWANS IN JAPAN

 
                                 Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner, National Geographic


Innocence, purity, peace. The color white evokes images of everything from brides to blizzards, from cleanliness to a blank canvas. Its meaning in culture and custom throughout history is as varied as its range of shades.

Here, whooper swans take flight above a frozen landscape in Japan. The swans take off mostly on water, but can also do so on solid ground, using a short run & beating their massive wings to achieve liftoff.



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