Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
Birds and Mammals
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Away From the Shore by Daniel Liddell
Full of the unknown— I throw caution to the wind— Away from the shore.
Point Reyes national seashore was a glimmer of light for me. I went there with the intention of photographing a bald eagle. I stayed in Inverness, a small town. Later, I drove to the north side of Point Reyes. I scanned the trees and the horizon. When I got to the tomales point I saw cliffs, waves, vultures, tule elk, and as always little birds chirping. The drive was unique because of the large fields on both sides of the roads. That’s how I captured the photo of the Northern Harrier.
As I was driving I saw a bird flying in a new way that I was not used to. I had seen red-tailed hawks, and vultures that fly high. The northern harrier was flying low. Thankfully, I found a place to pull over. As I pulled over the northern harrier perched to my left on a fence post. I opened my sunroof and aimed. I captured the perch, and then I captured the moments following. That moment is a moment I go back to for a reminder of why I photograph animals. A moment of beauty shared between myself and nature.
