Weekly photo challenge – Express Yourself

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Expressing yourself is the main aim of a personal blog.  This week, it’s also the theme of the Daily Press Weekly Photo Challenge.

I try to stay upbeat in my contributions to the blogging world.  That’s why I removed the original post that contained these birds.  It wasn’t online for long.  This was back before I discovered how critical diet was to my mood.

The post seemed excessively sad.  There were no words.  I’d put the images in a slideshow in the order shown below.  I think that format just accentuated the sadness because you didn’t know what was coming next, and there was no happy resolution to the sequence.  You couldn’t run it backwards.

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The sequence could be read as representing a floundering friendship that needed space apart to let ruffled feathers settle.

What actually happened is quite different.  It was a cold June morning in Canberra.  The crested pigeons were huddled together for warmth.  Then they heard the click of my camera shutter.  The space between the pair, and they were a couple, grows wider and wider with every photo.

It’s actually about protecting your loved one in a situation that seems unusual, unsafe, even threatening.

It’s just too easy to incorporate our feelings into our interpretation and end up with the wrong end of the stick.

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