Simple one tonight.
Mostly because I couldn’t have said it better.
Here is a quote from “The Online Photographer”, A Postcard from Peter
“The gift of seeing, feeling, and the joy of response!
“We live in a world full of immense challenges—often personal and maybe more often, generalized challenges to the spirit presented by the major forces at play all around us—politics, economics, ideology, attitudes, and environmental realities. In the midst of all of this—among the daily blessings and joys that offer so much amazing life in the present moment—is the opportunity to go out, and use one’s eyes, heart, movement, and presence to not only see, but to feel, and respond by registering with a camera, our very personal now. For many of us, it is not only photography, but more importantly, this opportunity to exist and live in the present among all that life can offer daily, that is an essential nourishment for the soul. And, it all starts by simply being out, present, and alive, by seeing and feeling. This opportunity is such a blessing for us all.”
—Peter Turnley
Original contents copyright 2020 by Peter Turnley. All Rights Reserved.
Mike at Online Photographer also features a photo by Peter. But courtesy means I won’t republish it here, without permission.
Peter Turnley is a photojournalist and has had many magazine covers over his career.
I have often pondered in quieter moments, that if I’d have not taken a turn to commercial photography, that PJ would have been my pursuit.
So to that end, much of my current bird photography is not about exotic, or more species, but simply to record the goings on of the lives on birds that I come in contact with.
Its my own gift of the Very Personal Now.
Enjoy.
Birds as Poetry —— Just because I WANDER - --doesn't mean I'm LOST 
Indeed the opportunity is a blessing! We should all seize that more often!
A wonderful image of the Bee-eater, David!
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Thanks David, and given the fearful conditions that have struck our country of late, even being about to go out in relative peace and security is a precious blessing indeed.
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A beautiful portrait of the Bee-eater David, and some lovely thoughts to accompany it.
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Thank’s for stopping by Eleanor, I was pretty taken by Peter’s quote as it so condenses some of the thoughts that I ponder over.
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A beautiful Bee-eater image David! and true you are a journalist capturing and documenting in your photos the lives and behaviours of our birds in such amazing detail.
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Thanks for the support Ashley,
Some of the very first pictures I had published were from the story telling genre. Magazines and newspapers and sports publictions. But training ‘photo assistants, and technicans’, were mostly ‘indentured’ to a pro studio and took on the direction of the work of that studio.
10 years later and things had indeed changed, but sometimes I ponder that the old way did give the neophyte a feel for the whole business.
These days I see people with no photo skill, or some who have a ‘degree’ in some branch of photography, but really not understanding the business. But then I may be old fashoined. 🙂
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