Away! away! for I will fly to thee...

                        Welcome back!!!!


           Today I decided to go with another approach and to do a vidblog. This video is based around my trip to The Wild Fowl Trust, which is the same place I visited last, in my previous blog. 

           The following would be a little summary of the content that is in the video, for those who don't have the time to listen. Also, the video is very soft, and you might have to listen to it with headphone or with your volume on high, my microphones don't pick up sound that very well. 

For the remaining weeks I will post the captures that I got during the semester from the Wild fowl trust, Caroni Swamp, Petrotrin, Tobago and Maracas.

Today I will share another picture I took in The Wild Fowl trust. It is one of the birds there. While I was passing, it was bathing in one of the ponds and was shaking it’s feathers a lot, it was about to take flight when I hustled to get the picture.

 My mistake was to not have my camera readily at hand. I set the camera quickly to sport, which usually helps to capture an object in motion. The downside to this though, is usually you get grains on the image. This is called noise. If you look closely at the image you would see spots, or grains and it spoils the quality of the image. Luckily I did not get much noise for this shot, but one side of the bird’s wings was blurred completely. I would say about 70% of it’s body was in focus though. Unless  I had a professional camera, it would be veryyy difficult to get this entire bird still and in focus. 

This is the shot of the bird I got. It is not a picture to be all hyped about, but I gave it a try. 

I will have a few more videos up soon, so look out for them. 

As Freedom...

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee'

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,

But a plea, that upward to heaven he flings--

I know why the caged bird sings!

- from "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Until then, be creative in whatever you do, and don’t forget to see the beauty in everything that surrounds you.