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A photographer sitting in the back of a station wagon to photograph geese flying behind him
January 5, 2021

Getting the Shot

Photographer Des Bartlett photographs snow and blue geese from the back of a station wagon in the Arizona desert. For the December 1973 issue, Bartlett and his wife Jen studied geese as they flew from the Canadian subarctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
Photograph by Des and Jen Bartlett, Nat Geo Image Collection

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