Didn’t know I could bend that way. It was one of those sunny blue, bone-chilling days when everything is crystal clear. I was set up near the base of the walnut tree when I looked up and saw the male cardinal overhead, flitting about trying to decide if he’d brave coming in to the feeder with me around. This was too good to be true. My always-imagined shot of the red against the blue was near at hand. I swung the camera upward. But he was almost directly overhead and I had set the tripod up as low as it could go to be level with some juncos feeding off the snow. So I had to contort on the ground and shoot him upside down. Think I invented a new yoga position (Cardinal Overhead). Nearly passed out from the blood rushing to my head and having to bend my neck beyond its tolerances. But I survived and got the shot.
