Blue Blackbirds

My intention was to get a photograph of the dozens of birds on and around this SUV in a grocery store parking lot.

But photography turns out to be a lot like writing. You can’t really get where you want to go by showing something in a general way. Although you can’t tell from this shot that there were fifty or sixty birds right near by, this is a truer image than the first pictures I took here. You have to delve into the intimacy of a scene, whether it’s for a story or a photograph in order to get to the truth of it.

Just as in writing, the truly interesting details are seldom the ones you had in mind when you started. Those you find along the way.

See more progress on: every week we set each other challenges of things to take pics of!? And then we post them on here!