Digiscoping

What you see depends on who you are, what you are photographing depends on what equipment you use, where you are aiming at in certain situations. No, my world view is not ornithocentric (and probably not even opisthocentric). These pictures were taken with a Swarovski AT-80 and my handheld Olympus TG-2.

World views

These were almost the only birds that were showing early in the morning in the right angle to the sun. They were literally glowing. I like the orbe shape of the picture, making it look like an observation through a magic ball or the walls of a cave. It gives perspectives on what we perceive as reality and what we focus on. Is the earth flat, an orbe, what is up and what is down? Is there a place for a peek under water? Some of us might take a family centered approach, some even an ornithocentric one? What political branch are we? Do we prefer to see everything clear or blurred?

Chest X-ray

Surely, it is possible to take better shots digiscoping. This picture is a full frame. It makes me think about cropping or limiting our views and perspectives, about magnification and at what price it tends to come with. It also makes me think about my habit of letting photos create themselves. Surely, I positioned the bird in front of the bright area. But only later it became a chest x-ray showing a bird where the heart is supposed to be (just had a giggle realising that the bird is almost too far out for it to even represent a lung), poking the spine with its pointy beak.