the bird sat perfectly still for ten minutes and flew the exact instant i lifted the camera

a heron. textbook light, glassy water, the whole composition just sitting there. i raise the lens, it decides it has urgent business three counties over.

shoots birds that won't sit still here, so this is just tuesday, but i swear they can hear the shutter half-press. got the empty branch in perfect focus though. framing it. calling it minimalism.