in my hand series - Yuko Ishii Fine Art & Wildlife Photography

in my hand series & others

I am always concerned with conveying the deep spiritual beauty
of wild birds I see and actually feel. I usually put a bird in my left hand
and hold my camera in my right hand, then click the shutter.
These wild birds in my hand were all vital basically, but the truth is that before
I put the birds in my hand they had accidentally hit against
the windows and were in a shock a little while on ground. So this series
began from just saving birds from predators, but I realized that for me
this was a perfect opportunity to observe and photograph them.
This special moment creates a harmony and impermanent tension
between the birds and me, because I know they
will never come back to my hand again after returning to the sky…
(When I have birds hitting windows hard that's not my time to photograph!
I just put them in a box and let them recover in the shade)

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