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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein I was looking at a photo I made at the rookery — a spoonbill, full wingspan, carrying nesting material — and something about the shape kept nagging at me. I couldn’t place it. Eventually I did. The Chrysler Crossfire. That long…
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I’ve been shooting long enough that most sightings don’t stop me in my tracks anymore. The spoonbill is different. Every time I see one, I still have a small involuntary reaction, like my brain needs a second to accept what it’s looking at. Part of it is the color. Nothing else in these wetlands is…
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I noticed movement in the water beneath the trees. Something registered immediately — that’s not birds. I picked up my camera to see what it was. It was an alligator, and it was eating something. It took a second to determine that it had an egret. The birds don’t end up above the alligators by…
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There’s a version of bird photography where you’re always chasing the rarest thing in the county. That’s never really been my game. These are stilts — not rare, not life-list exciting for most birders. But they were here, the light was workable, and I had the camera up. That’s the part of this that I…