A few years ago, I took an interest in photographing trains. At first it was about taking the best shot I could at a given location but soon became more about trying to photograph as many different locomotives as I could. I found myself choosing locations based on my ability to photograph every engine on the train from the side. Now I don't think I could pick out ten shots that I thought were good enough to call a portfolio of train images. That experience played a part in deciding to make this bird project about collecting ten great images instead of just photographing as many different species as possible.
Today, I was walking on Lister Road and saw a new species of bird. I was carrying my phone (aka pocket computer) so I pulled up the iBird app and punched in Illinois, Secondary Color: Black, Head Pattern: Masked. The app returned seven birds that matched those descriptions and I easily identified the bird I saw as a Common Yellowthroat of the Wood Warbler family. If I had been carrying my camera I could have gotten a snapshot of it, but in the end it would have been nothing more than a side shot of another locomotive.
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