Catch of the day: heron photographs by Susan Komer

Wildlife photography is one of my favorite genre to work with.  I spend as much time as I can outdoors hiking to find true wildlife, hoping to catch things in action...showing us their true nature.  My husband enjoys fishing as a way to relax...as he fishes, I sit quietly...often perched on a rock...waiting.  On this day, we were down by a spillway when I had a chance encounter with this heron who didn't seem to mind my presence as he fished for his dinner.  Its not that often one stumbles across wildlife camera hams, but I'm pretty sure this guy was one.  I named him Slim and we spent a good hour together before he'd had enough of me, though I could have watched him for hours.

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...from the kitchen sink

Using the audacity program, I used several sounds that were recorded separately to create a random moment in time.  You can hear the constant chirping of birds: these are the sounds of the morning birds from my own backyard.  The scrambling is my dog...I like the idea of combining the sounds of him randomly through out the piece because I think it reflects the reality of his constant presence in our lives.  Two other sounds...one, the sound of doing dishes; the other the crinkle of a poptart wrapper.  I combined these sounds to give the idea of place...cleaning the dishes, perhaps cooking up some bacon....A person standing at the kitchen sink, the window above the sink is open so that the sounds of the birds can accompany a breeze that drifts through.  The dog runs back and forth through the room while its master tends to her daily tasks.

These separate sounds, combined together, create another random moment that though hadn't occurred, could have...

Learning to work with sound...