The biting wind whipped snowflakes around me as I huddled deeper into my parka, the icy marsh crunching underfoot. I'd been tracking this great blue heron for days, hoping to capture its solitary resilience against the harsh winter. Hours blurred into a frigid, patient vigil until finally, there it was. A statue of steely blue and grey, perched motionless on a snow-laden log, a beacon of life amidst the white expanse. In that moment, the sting of the cold faded, replaced by the quiet thrill of witnessing this wild survivor in its frozen kingdom. This? This is why I brave the elements, why I lose feeling in my toes, why I carry pounds of camera gear through snowdrifts. To freeze these fleeting fractions of life, framed forever in the stark beauty of winter.
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