Immense
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You've surely seen those spectacular nature shows, where tens of thousands of animals fill your entire field of vision, and go thundering across your television screen. If you are like me, your thought process goes something like this:
Awed: Wow....just....wow....
Curious: How did they ever manage to get those shots? They must have spent months, waiting for that one perfect moment. It must have been a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
Wistful: Can you imagine being able to witness something like that? To experience that kind of Force of Nature. If only...
I guess I imagined this sort of experience was only for the super rich, who had the time and the money to travel to the veldt or the tundra. I thought I would never be the person who had the face-to-face contact with Nature with a capital N.
And, boy was I wrong.
Robb and I were invited along on a birding trip, and my heart is still pounding from the thrill. We saw thousands and thousands and thousands of migrating birds. We heard thousands and thousands and thousands of migrating birds.
Robb and I are both exhausted. When I've sifted through my photos, and given more thought to the whole experience, I'll surely have more to say.
Until then, I'll just state the obvious: The Natural World is an awesome place.
(By the way, you can click on the photos, to see a larger image, or you can visit my Flickr page...)
You've surely seen those spectacular nature shows, where tens of thousands of animals fill your entire field of vision, and go thundering across your television screen. If you are like me, your thought process goes something like this:
Awed: Wow....just....wow....
Curious: How did they ever manage to get those shots? They must have spent months, waiting for that one perfect moment. It must have been a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
Wistful: Can you imagine being able to witness something like that? To experience that kind of Force of Nature. If only...
I guess I imagined this sort of experience was only for the super rich, who had the time and the money to travel to the veldt or the tundra. I thought I would never be the person who had the face-to-face contact with Nature with a capital N.
And, boy was I wrong.
Robb and I were invited along on a birding trip, and my heart is still pounding from the thrill. We saw thousands and thousands and thousands of migrating birds. We heard thousands and thousands and thousands of migrating birds.
Robb and I are both exhausted. When I've sifted through my photos, and given more thought to the whole experience, I'll surely have more to say.
Until then, I'll just state the obvious: The Natural World is an awesome place.
(By the way, you can click on the photos, to see a larger image, or you can visit my Flickr page...)
Comments
Love these shots, Lisa.
The Wandering B's
and I bet the real thing was more incredible than these lovely photos.
-D
This fall, I went on a bird banding expedition with my son's 4th grade class. Though we only got to watch two birds being banded, my son and I were both overwhelmed by the experience, the locale, and the project leader is incredible. We were ready to give all our personal belongings to Goodwill and take our camping gear (held back from the Goodwill donation drive, of course) and move up to Big Bald and band birds for the rest of our days. Turns out it's a seasonal project (during migrations), and they welcome volunteers - they generally don't require people to give up their lives for the project. So we are hoping for an available training spot in 2009. My pictures won't be like yours, but I hope to be able to share some ;-))
Blue Butterfly
BTW: I really like your wet and ruffled hawk picture.
I thought that I saw a bald eagle in montclare just off of the park street exit about 4 months ago.