You can get some amazing visual fragments of the flight of birds with supplementary flash and blessed timing. If you make the camera an extension of yourself, and try to make that flash of feathers in the air become one with you and your camera, the entire universe comes together in one 2,000th of a second. Sure are many failed moments; but when it all fits perfectly,— its the key to zen. The resulting image is always a surprise. Do I sound like someone on some hallucinatory mushroom? Who needs artificial substances when a bird in flight gets you high? More to follow, hoo roo Ding>