NIck & Eddie

I have always been fascinated by an animals ability to project what we see as character or a human-like personality trait. Sitting near the window one winter morning holding my brand new camera and reading the manual ( you read the manual too don’t you) these two guys flew up and landed on the top of juniper tree. I only had time for a few exposures before they left for parts unknown. Later as I was processing this shot I thought of the unlikely but cool pairing of these two, kind of like Ratzo and Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy. I know there wasn’t much chance that these guys had seen Midnight Cowboy or that they would have been flattered by the comparison, but I believe that there are a lot of reasons we push the shutter besides opportunity. Whenever I show people this photo in the gallery I always ask them “Which one is Nick and which one is Eddie?”.  Always, always, always Nick is the robin.