I heard a common Tailor bird lustily and tunefully singing uninterrupted, while it was twilight. I went out from the study, to notice it, perched in a branch facing our front door. Seeing me it stopped and turned to look in different directions. There was no more bird call. It flew away.
That is a branch where I noticed a Tailor bird last week and took soem photographs.
Was the Tailor bird calling out for me today!
If so, the assumption that Tailor birds are comfortable near human habitation is factual.
Its swift movements of the body even while singing make the photography difficult!
Its alert eyes and intentional look are striking! The olive green body and the creamy under coat make the bird beautiful to look at!
The book above calls for, ".. taking photographs more slowly, allowing ourselves to be fully present". It offers advice on "how to allow our pictures to tell stories and how photography can help us increase our sense of wonder and mystery and discover our own "rule of life' "!
The book is introduced by the author with these words: 'This book explores how photography can offer unique perspectives on ourselves, the world around us and deeper world within'.
It is now 40 years since I gradually got introduced to photography. Initially it was taking developmentally challenged children's photos while they are at play in the place of my work and in the recent 25 years, it was more of bird photography.
With about sixty thousands photos so far, I feel that the sense of attentiveness and sensing the meaning, although feebly, of the events in the environment of birds have grown with me.
Some birds are no more just visitors in the garden, but guests who bring cheer and encouragement.
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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