Saturday, January 23, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Coming to Roost, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 22, 2010
Last night about sunset I walked the mile and a half from the RV park down to the first pond to watch the Sandhill Cranes come to roost and managed to get this fun shot in the fading light. These amazing birds don't seem to pay any attention to the camera crews. They make their landing, settle in, tuck their head under a wing and call it a day.
What an awesome experience it is to have these huge magnificent birds glide over not 20 feet above your head. Jaw dropping.
Ready or not.... , Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 23, 2010
Today I walked down early to eavesdrop on their morning ritual and takeoff and found the birders as entertaining as the birds. There were folks here with some really good gear. Huge, long lenses, gimbaled tracking tripods, fill flashes - very impressive equipment. And me with my little Panasonic DMC-FZ28 point & shoot trying my best to get any shot at all on this cloudy morning. If it weren't for a good noise reduction plugin and some creative license in Photoshop I wouldn't have recovered anything from the 90 images I shot.
Maybe it isn’t where I am, but what I do.
Night camp
Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Click for Google street view
- Check the weather in San Antonio NM
Relive Your Traumas
I suppose you have to relive your traumas in a way that is somewhat controlled and contained in order to move on from them. Some things you can walk quickly away from and never look back and other things bid you look again and again until you see something of the truth of them. I believe you have to let yourself remember and relive, that you have to find a way to settle with your past because you and it are always going to occupy the same headspace - you cannot separate yourself from anything you have ever done or seen or thought. You have to be able to look at the elements of the past without flinching and I believe that sometimes takes a few kicks at the cat. Or it does for me, anyway. It doesn't change anything - but it makes it easier to be comfortable in my skin.
Living Art - Photography and Stories By Catherine Jamieson