Not every image from Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area features snow geese or tundra swans.  This image is of a little Amish or Mennonite girl who was with her family watching the birds with her hands folded neatly behind her back.  There were 5 or 6 young children with their mom.  They had no cameras, cell phones, scopes, or binoculars.  They were simply there to watch and enjoy nature’s once a year show!  Seeing their eyes light up as thousands of geese swirled in front of them made me stop and wonder if I could just enjoy the moment without feeling the need to photograph.  As photographers we often feel that we have to record the event, not because we are capturing the perfect image, but just to freeze  the experience so that it can be relived later on in time.  I am definitely guilty of that.  I’m not sure that I could go to Middle Creek and leave my camera at home, but I will definitely be trying to take in the big scene without looking at it through a viewfinder more often!