This series of photos is more than picturing the nature being back to life or showing everything colored, fresh and alive. These photos pay special attention to the multi-faceted vitality of birds in the 3 phases of spring so that they fulfill the比賽主題:留意春季充滿生機的景像。The 3 phases these photos portray are:
1. Early spring – The weather is very similar to the winter and creatures have not yet rebuilt a brand new life. My photos display the elegant hunting style of a bird (the OUTER beauty).
2. Mid-spring – Life is being rebuilt but the process is still fragile. As the reserve prepared for the cold days is almost exhausted, most creatures struggle to survive these hardest days in a harsh environment. My photos display the INNER beauty of the strong and persistent vitality.
3. Late spring—Life rebuilding is getting momentum. My photos display the beauty of flying birds in the good days in late spring.
Winter is the dry season in Hong Kong and the rivers become shallow or even dry in the early and mid-spring. Although the DCFever article雀鳥攝影技巧分享(上)points out CORRECTLY that牠們習慣早上及黃昏覓食,下午通常會休息, these birds were still hunting in the afternoon as they could not obtain enough food in the morning. The birds realized that it was too danger to fly or jump partially into the shallow river to fish. This kind of birds has learnt, through thousands of spring since the invention of boats by human being, to step down along a rope that tied a boat to the riverside for catching the fishes. Hence, the spring of this year is more than just the beginning of this year and it is also more than just the succession of last winter. What we seen in this spring are also determined from the spring in the past thousands of years.