The winter can be a long lonely beast if you allow it. Watching nature’s creatures going about their life on a cold winter’s day can be an uplifting experience. Wildlife always seem to know how to honor “the moment” and live in it. Never miss the moment. Even in the middle of winter.
It does seem like much of my past fifteen years have been spent speaking or writing about “moments”. About the importance of “seeing” them when they occur. I think that is why I became a nature photographer. I toyed with the idea of doing documentary films or at least shooting stock video, but there was something about the art of stopping a single “moment” for eternity. Photo galleries are a collection of moments. Even in the pictures below we have moments. The light in the first photo was unusual and worth sharing. It lasted a minute at most. How long do you suppose that the Cardinal or the Blue Jay held their pose? Maybe for a moment? Those young foxes were having a good time and stopped for a well needed rest. For a moment that is. The alpenglow on that mountain was brief, but beautiful. There was but a second that the stark and moody light on that old Oak tree stayed as you see it before a harsh backlight changed the feeling. It took 1/60th of one single second to capture that moment forever. Photography like life, is about brief but special moments.
I want to thank each of you for reading this blog. You will be very few in numbers this time around but there are those among you to whom I owe a great deal. I am better for having known you and I thank you more than I can say.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”……Albert Einstein
Earth Images Blog by Wayne Nelson 