Kids and Song Birds

So as many know I enjoy photography, and I mean a lot. More importantly I like taking pictures of wildlife and recently the best stuff I have been able to capture are the song birds in my backyard. This is no easy task. They don't sit and wait for you to get the right settings. You can tempt them with some bird seed but they are more than happy to take a seed and fly off behind some leaves. They don't come when they are called and you can't threaten them. Now you see where I am going. Taking pictures of song birds is like taking pictures of your kids, well my kids more specifically. I try, and try and try, but for every 100 pictures I take 5 might be good enough to share. One might think that this was a waste of film, and they would be right, however I shoot digital so I can erase what is not worth keeping.

Case in point. I was trying to take a picture of my 3 year old so that I could get her eyes, don't ask I have a thing about the eye, it's cool. Well I tried tempting her, let's be real here, bribing her and she would stand still for about .000000001 seconds after getting her bribe. So I try a different tactic, I give her the bribe after. Still she sat still for about .000000005 seconds.

So in conclusion kids are like song birds. They don't sit still. You can try to bribe them, but it rarely gives you the results you want. they rarely come when called and you cannot threaten them with anything more than a time out.