Professional wildlife [bird] photographers don't look :

Gotcha! Such an easily, [why did you fumble] packaged opportunity like this had to be snapped up. Now, I'm not equipped with the appropriate camera & lenses etc. for this ; remember I retreated as a 'happy snapper'. To top it all, this is such a familiar 'post card' image shot to perfection, I would not even want to fiddle with it, let alone look for another perspective of this all too familiar subject: Sunbird seeking 'sweet' nectar in aloe.

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Today like this bird we were searching for the illusive sun and the brief moment occurred, all happening next to the side of the road. Yes, nothing 'frazzled', 'fuzzed', disturbed it, not me , not the cars, nothing. The road coming from Simonstown going towards Scarborough, where they display all those weird and wonderful sculptures mainly of the 'big 5' animals. There is that brief country feeling, smelling of whipped up ocean mist and added to that the freshness of 'Fynbos', that's swelling up of all the water it received and all the different protea species just slowly bursting their precious, beautiful flower heads, what show offs! And all this 5minutes away from built up areas. So I guess what I'm nudging at, is no opportunity should be ignored or shrugged off due to whatever reasons. Okay, now when can we leave the city and do the real nature thing and bring 'those' cameras, yes, come lug them along....

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No matter what, the personal experience, was really what this was all about. This one is mine and it just has that much more meaning, like seeing the original artwork of the great masters.