A Short Announcement
My birds are all gone, at least the egrets, the ibis es, and the herons, most of the pelicans. I did not get to the hawk place, they close at 5 PM.
I went everywhere starting with the place where they hung out in flocks of like 25 egrets, 30 pelicans and a heron or two if I was lucky. Not a bird in sight. The grass was longer, the tide was out, the wind was blowing. The shrimpers were not there, the dog, no, it looked deserted, except that their boats were there.
Then I went to my other places.
I have no more birds, none, zip.
WHO STOLE MY BIRDS? If no one stole them, where do birds go? (I did not check the local BBQ joint, but I would have heard if they were there)
My photography life is over............as I knew it.
ginger
I went everywhere starting with the place where they hung out in flocks of like 25 egrets, 30 pelicans and a heron or two if I was lucky. Not a bird in sight. The grass was longer, the tide was out, the wind was blowing. The shrimpers were not there, the dog, no, it looked deserted, except that their boats were there.
Then I went to my other places.
I have no more birds, none, zip.
WHO STOLE MY BIRDS? If no one stole them, where do birds go? (I did not check the local BBQ joint, but I would have heard if they were there)
My photography life is over............as I knew it.
ginger
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This fall I went and took some pelican pictures at a well known gathering spot, a co-worker went to do the same no more than a week or so later only to find all the pelicans had flown south.
Welcoming the migratory birds back
I am sure with your photographic talent that a new subject/s will soon be gracing this forum.:D
Tim
The top story tonight was that all the birds are in Florida, massing for an attack on Harry tomorrow morning.
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Someone should have shown my birds Lynn's snow photos. They are lovely, but not usually associated with egrets.
I know these things migrate, I thought a few stayed. I suspect at the one place they quit feeding them. The man probably died. There was an important van thing missing, too.
I still have my membership at Magnolia Gardens, I had better get out there soon. There is a photography workshop I am going to, there, with Tom Blagdon (sp?), a photographer of SC, and Vermont. He lives here. A one day workshop. I hope he is talking about birds. And the really funny part is that I probably won't be able to hear much of what he says. But I hope to get some info out of it. I just keep harrassing these people. He undoubtedly knows what birds I can find when. He does landscapes, birds, wildlife........has books out. That sort of thing.
ginger (thanks for the explanation, not that I don't hope some of my birds stay here. That is funny that you all had the same experience. There one day, gone the next.)
Hitchcock is alive and well in Florida!!! Watch out Harry - thye're coming for ya!!! :lol4 :lol4 :lol4
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
How about taking your camera with you when you go to the BBQ joint and getting some shots? What's it all about? Is the food good? How are their babybacks?
Your photo life is not over. It's evolving.
Good photographers are flexible. If one subject disappears, find another.
Perhaps something like this? (not my photo)
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson