cygnets playing

pt. 3 of "Swimming with cygnets" (hicetnunc-OBJKT#825932) pt. 2 at OBJKT#828740

I feel there's something even more rewarding to wildlife or street shots coming out because they encapsulate more of an ephemeral, transient moments than the permanence within architecture or landscape shots that I usually gravitate toward shooting. If I come back from Central and the building or scene I shot was misaligned or blown out or whatever, I can usually just go back and try again. However, only a couple of weekends hence the cygnets here have already lost a bit of their sheen as they grow towards their full glory through that ugly duckling stage, and it'll be a full year before there'll be the possibility of cygnets at this age; and I'd probably miss it anyway.

So much of photography resides within the liminal moment of transience between shutter open and shutter close, and I often question why I tend to shy away from these kinds of inherently transient subjects. I find myself desiring to go out intending to find wildlife to capture, or heading out into the town to explore without the search for architectural subjects in the front of my mind. Or even heading out to the countryside where I'd usually find myself after ever-changing clouds and painted skies. The transience of these subjects and moments I often forget to consider when considering the repeatability of subjects.

There might be younglings next year, but the same cloud doesn't come twice...