Perhaps the reason we love birds so much is because they're not tethered to terra firma the way we poor Homo sapiens are. We came down from the trees, put on pants and never went back. (OK, part of us put on hoop skirts, but you get my drift.) If we had remained arboreal, maybe we would have grown wings out of sheer mad longing to remain free.
Even on a cold day, birds are active in three dimensions. In the beat of a heart, they're off in any direction.
Such freedom!
But this makes photographing them most difficult. A split instant after I snapped the photo of the white-throated sparrow, it bolted, making the second exposure a pleasing blur. A portrait of motion itself.
Now, that's vitality.
- Photo taken at Ijams Nature Center
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