I had the perfect opportunity when cruising the back roads of the Cosumnes River Preserve mid-February of 2020. I drive along these roads from time to time but had never seen a crane here before. I guess the timing was right as I drove along slowly with my borrowed Olympus camera and 300mm lens in hand, windows down, and heard the familiar sound of cranes flying overhead.
I quickly pulled over in the misty twilight and saw cranes coming in to land. I jumped out and steadied the camera on a fence to take some shots of the lavender-tinted wonderland I found myself in and the cranes did their nightly fly-in to the shallow water for safety from nighttime predators.
Magical.
xoxo
Olympus E-M1 Mark 11 M.Zuiko 300mm lens
