And one morning, I took my children and my helper along, to the river not too far from our house. I was hoping to find some aquatic birds,particularly the Pied Kingfisher. At some far distance, I spotted a Great Egret and when we moved closer, it flew even further away. After some time, I realised that we might not get lucky and the kids had also started becoming irritable and because it was a deserted place, we had to return home. Sometimes I fail to stay longer (nature photography needs some level of patience) but most times I don’t feel safe enough to be out there alone and carrying my equipment. But on our way back, we saw some dragonflies. At first I was adamant to take pictures, until I realised that they were different colours. I got fascinated and followed them to a particular branch where they sat still on and I locked in the shots. At some point I let the kids try to take pictures with my camera but it was too heavy for them.
After different attempts, I was happy with the shots I took and the kids were slowly getting even more irritable, they had their eyes set on the jumping castle near by. They wanted to play but I just had to say no because it wasn’t ours. I followed them back and again, we saw another type of a dragonfly.
We got back home. I had some shots to add to my collection.
VIXEN ON THE MOVE 