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Asleep Afloat Safe (Single)
DESCRIPTION
This set of seven Swan babies were about a week old when this shot was taken ... they were napping all together on the water, their parents nearby. Asleep and afloat in what looked to me like a lake full of stars! A few months later I returned, and only two had survived babyhood. That is just the way Nature works some times, but it made this photo even more precious to me. Nothing is guaranteed, so I try very hard to always appreciate the beauty of life wherever and whenever I find it. Are the babies that are gone from here in their own Star Lake up above? I hope so.
AUTHOR
Gillian Overholser is a former television journalist now creating Fine Art Nature Photography on Plum Island, MA. Her primary interest is Bird Portraiture -- that is, treating wild birds as unique souls, just as worthy of Fine Art portraiture as any other creature. Given a chance to see each wild bird's unique personality, we are invited to share this world more gently with all creatures, and all souls.
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