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Monday, February 8, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Image Number 6,000, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2010
Image Number 6,000, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2010

Six thousand images in 14 days

That's more pictures than I've taken in a lifetime and it's taxing my ability to keep up with the tossing and sorting and cataloging. I'm having trouble getting out of the tourist mode of snapping everything that moves. With the rapid fire this new camera is capable of (a wonderful feature in its place) I can easily end up with 10 or 20 copies of an image I won't end up keeping. Like number 6,000 above - a poor image in a sequence of poor images. The Cranes flew and I got 'em by gorry! Phew...

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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