Spring is a beautiful and revitalizing time of the year, but I have a hard time saying goodbye to winter. I enjoy the cold season more than most and often get puzzled looks when I say summer is actually my least favorite season. There’s a calmness in the winter that you don’t experience in the other seasons.
I’ve spent this last winter alone in a cabin growing and trying to better understand who I am and what I want from this life. Personal growth stuff that everyone goes through in some form or another in their life. I’m hungry for exploration and pushing myself to be a better photographer. To see new places and have new experiences while using all I’ve learned to continue to grow in my art. I’ve been contacted to have one of my photographs featured by Pure Michigan, which is very exciting. I have plans for landscape photography trips and have been focusing on taking my best wildlife photos to date. I’ve also been teaching photography and find it very fulfilling.
This image, in my opinion, is my best black-capped chickadee to date and I think I’ll have a hard time taking a better one. Close encounters with wildlife are rare and often very brief. I’m up for the challenge though and look forward to what I’m to come across in the wild.
