Crazy About Photography
When you are passionate about something you never worry about anything else around you. My craze for photographing nature takes me to some dangerous places. Sometimes I don't even know what I am doing, thankfully I have someone who always has my back.
Before the lock-down started almost every weekend my husband and I would drive to some place close by and spend time in the lap of nature. My camera would always be with me on these delightful little journeys. It was our wedding anniversary and as usual we went on our little jaunt to a lake which was a 45 minute drive away from home if you didn't take the mad traffic congestion into account. We had just read about that lake in the morning newspaper which dubbed the lake as a veritable bird paradise.
We got our tickets and headed down the walking path to the lake. It would be a understatement to say we were disappointed. The lake was over grown with weeds, there was barely any water there, just marshes of the terrible weed called water hyacinth.
I spotted a swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) quite close to the edge of the lake. Swamphens are not so common here so I was glad to get close to the lake’s edge and get a couple of decent shots.
Just then I heard my husband shrieking from behind me, he grabbed me by my arm and dragged me firmly close to his side. I wondered why he was acting crazy it took me a few minutes to realize that I had almost stepped on a snake.
Well, that was the last I got anywhere near the edge of the lake for the rest of our trip. All my other photos had to be taken from a distance.
I am truly thankful to have such a caring husband besides me all the time. I am always stepping right into puddles and pits that lie ahead of me when I am trying to grab images with my camera.
I did get to see a few other kind of birds that day, but the experience left me a teeny bit shaken for a while. All this for the love of birds.
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