Sometimes Mother Nature sends us small ‘slice of life’ gifts when we least expect them. This short article features a series of 26 consecutive images of a house sparrow taking off, then doing a mid flight U-turn.

This series of photographs of a mid flight U-turn was captured hand-held in my backyard this past weekend.

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The photographs of a house sparrow doing a mid flight U-turn fall into the ‘cute’ or the ‘fun to see’ category. I was expecting the sparrow to continue on its journey and leave the frame. Not do a mid-flight U-turn and return to the bird feeder. Sometimes these little slices of life from nature are metaphors for our own lives. How many of us have done a mid flight U-turn in our own life?

Technical Note:
All photographs were captured hand-held in available light using camera equipment as noted in the EXIF data. All images were produced from RAW files using my standard process.

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