We dream of pictures that we would like to take . Sometimes the dream picture comes along and the camera is all zipped up in the bag with the wrong lens on. Sometimes the battery is dead. Sometimes the light just isn't there. Sometimes the angle is wrong or the focus is not right. This time of year is most frustrating. The swans are nesting and mating. In their post coital bliss they do the most beautiful move ever seen in birding. They make swan heart you see in silhouette sometimes. The problem for the photographer is that the whole act, beginning to beautiful swan heart lasts only a few short seconds. They begin with some premating head dipping, mate and make the heart before you can turn on the camera. Today the camera in hand taking pictures of a ruddy duck in the lake, I turned to see the swans dipping... I was ready. And it happened.. but alas the angle was wrong. Even so, I have to share my near success. Still dreaming.
Awesome!
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