{"id":56553,"date":"2019-03-11T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=56553"},"modified":"2024-08-12T04:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:54:50","slug":"me-with-an-anhinga-waiting-out-a-storm-plus-the-story-behind-this-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/03\/11\/me-with-an-anhinga-waiting-out-a-storm-plus-the-story-behind-this-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Me With An Anhinga Waiting Out A Storm Plus The Story Behind This Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Anhinga photo was taken at Sawgrass Lake Park<\/span><\/a> in Pinellas County, Florida way back in June of 2007 with my first DSLR, the Nikon D70. I don’t recall if I took this photo using the VR version of the 70-300mm lens or not. This isn’t a great photo of the Anhinga but I kept it because of the story behind the photo.<\/p>\n

\"AnhingaAnhinga waiting out a rain storm – Nikon D70, f5.6, 1\/100, ISO 200, Nikkor 70-300mm, natural light
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Sawgrass Lake Park has quite a few trails, some on land and some that are boardwalks over the swampier areas of the park. I had been walking the boardwalk when I noticed that the weather was going to take a turn for the worse so I made a mad dash towards the observation tower to take shelter from the rain storm and the lightning.<\/p>\n

The rain storms in Florida during the summer can be brief and that was what I was hoping for because I knew the lower deck of observation tower wouldn’t provide me with much protection from the lightning but it would help to keep me and my gear dry.<\/p>\n

I didn’t quite make it to the observation tower before the driving rain started to fall but at least my camera was dry even though I wasn’t. I didn’t see anyone else on the lower deck of the observation tower so I thought I was alone and when I noticed a couple of Anhingas waiting out the storm I decided to take some photos of them because I like photos with streaks of rain in them along with birds.<\/p>\n

The Anhingas weren’t close but I felt okay with that because for me the rain streaks and the lake were as important as the birds were in the images I took.<\/p>\n

Then I heard a man and a woman yelling at each other from the deck above me. I am not sure they even knew I was below them on the lower deck and I felt very uncomfortable listening to their private argument but what could I do?<\/p>\n

The pounding rain, thunder and flashes of lightning kept me from leaving the relative safety of the observation tower and I certainly didn’t want to leave, be struck by lightning and die on the boardwalk because I was so horribly uncomfortable hearing them yell at each other.<\/p>\n

So I took photos of this Anhinga waiting out the storm while I waited for a break in the weather so I could get away from from the couple that were yelling at each other. As soon as the rain and lightning slowed down I covered my camera with the lower part of my shirt and took off.<\/p>\n

To this day I can’t look at the photos I took of the Anhingas in that storm without remembering how uncomfortable I felt being within ear shot of that man and woman arguing.<\/p>\n

The story behind the images I took of the Anhinga waiting out the storm isn’t a happy or pleasant one but I still liked the images I took.<\/p>\n

Life can be uncomfortable but it is<\/em> still good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Anhinga photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story behind the images I took of the Anhinga waiting out the storm isn’t a happy or pleasant one but I still liked the images I took. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[326,27,25,2000,883],"tags":[2401,1094,11837,8826,617,9465,10555,4501,6989,4500,2315,9464,6988],"class_list":["post-56553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anhingas","category-avian","category-florida","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-sawgrass-county-park","tag-anhinga","tag-anhinga-anhinga","tag-anhingas","tag-boardwalk","tag-lightning","tag-maple-swamp","tag-observation-deck","tag-rain","tag-rain-storm","tag-storm","tag-summer-3","tag-swamp","tag-thunder-storm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t