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. 
Some birds are really friendly, and they come onto my hand happily, but
sometimes I have birds that accidentally hit against 
the windows and are in a shock a little while on ground. This series 
began from just saving birds from predators, but I realized that for me 
this is a perfect opportunity to observe and photograph them up close, 
though I have only a couple of minutes. 
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 that are stunned badly, 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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