I in June of 2018 visited with my mother the Audubon centre of Asheville, North Carolina, which, although the city of Asheville appears to have been created by an assembly of hipsters, possesses a relatively well-maintained Audubon centre. When we entered the reserved land and began to walk along a trail which was presumably created by those who are responsible for the maintenance of the location, I quickly noticed that some twigs appeared to be spontaneously moving. The spontaneous movement of inanimate objects, however, is relatively unlikely, so I theorised that a little bird may have been foraging amongst the brush, and this theory was proven to be correct, as I then witnessed a bird whom I declared to be a sparrow, but I was presented with a challenge, as I was uncertain of the name of the species of which he was a member. As I attempt to take advantage of every opportunity with which I am presented, I laid on the ground, pointed at the sparrow of a relatively great size my camera, and I created many photographs which to my pleasure contain him. He, much to my surprise, because I have noticed that birds often become rather frightened when processing the sounds which are emitted by any of various pieces of photographic equipment, refused to fly away from me when the camera began to create the photographs starring him, which for obvious reasons pleased me. After he relocated in an attempt to discover more food, I viewed the photographs which were transferred to the CompactFlash card, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my eastern towhee was standing open-mouthed in one of these photographs! During this same visit, I happily viewed a song sparrow, Melospiza melodia, who was extremely enthusiastically singing an appealing song, Thryothorus ludovicianus, the Carolina wren, a northern cardinal, otherwise known as Cardinalis cardinalis, a belted kingfisher, and some other lovely creatures whom I cannot specifically remember.

After returning to the hotel at which my mother and I were for the duration of this trip residing, I developed this and several other photographs of decent quality which had been on the day of the exposure of this photograph created by me. I was pleased with this photograph, but I had not yet truly begun to embrace the rules of cropping photographs containing birds; the towhee occupied the leftmost portion of the frame, which resulted in a rather unpleasing image. I when developing the image, however, failed to notice my atrocious cropping work, and I therefore finished the developing of the image and intended to later publish it, but when I decided to publish it, I was appalled by my cropping work! The viewer of the image was incapable of seeing that he was simply looking to his right, as opposed to watching a small insect or other entity. Because of this, I hatched a plan which involved its later development and publishing, but, because I never noted my intentions, I for several months failed to remember this photograph’s demanding further development, but I fixed this mistake in December of 2018, as I attached to the computer which I utilise for the editing of my photographs another hard disk drive and began to create a revised image, which was surprisingly easy; this task demanded but thirty minutes of my time. This photograph was obviously after the writing of its description published to various Web sites which I use in an attempt to receive criticism anent my photographs and hopefully encourage the protection of birds and the ecosystem in general.

As always, constructive criticism pertaining to this photograph, my writing, or any of my other photographs would be joyfully received by me, because I rather strongly wish to improve the quality of my photography. The sugar-coating of criticism directed at my creations, or even me as a person, is unnecessary, and it often simply causes the man who criticised my work to appear to have been uncertain about the legitimacy of the criticism which he gave to me. Although I attempt to extract everything which is beneficial for me from every situation in which I am involved, the lack of confidence which is displayed by those who vigorously attempt to remove any offensiveness from their criticisms leads to my suspicion of the lack of advice which would affect my creations positively. Please verbosely explain to me any flaws which are present in this photograph and were directly caused by me, e.g., clipping highlights or shadows, if they are noticed.