Every photography opportunity is also an opportunity to learn, to add to the previous gained knowledge and to engage with nature. Even if at the end no image was worth keeping, other opportunities are still achieved. Coming across 650 to 700 Bohemian Waxwings one cold morning during the winter was a wonderful opportunity. Being in the middle, the waxwings beautiful call was nature’s version of surround sound. After taking in the visual, it was time to decide how I wanted to take their picture. I had several options, but I only focused on a few. One of them was when some started consuming juniper berries. The way they were moving around the shrubs, it looked like chaos to my eyes. But they were in full control. For several minutes I was hoping to get a picture of one waxwing with a berry in its bill, I got three. After spending about twenty-five minutes among them, they decided to move on, leaving me with memories on my camera and on the sensor in my head.
