If you do not learn to enjoy everything that surrounds us, then any life situation can be regarded from the position of a bird that was closed in a cage.

We want to see summer, but the winter landscape stretches before us, we want to sleep, but the sun is shining, we need light, but around, only cold darkness, we want to see space, but the steel mesh blocks our way, we want lobsters, but there is enough in our pocket money only for crab sticks, lol.

I saw something similar late in the evening when I passed a sports ground fenced with a wire fence, on which pieces of ice were firmly held.

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This picture had its own vibe. depending on the point of view, sometimes, through the cells of the grid, terrible, lol, eyes looked at me. It was like a black cat hunting a parrot sitting in a cage, apparently, I was such a parrot at that moment.

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A different angle, thanks to the light from the windows of neighboring houses, gave a sense of calm, and the understanding that Christmas was not over.

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And this, simple-looking photograph, and. seemingly unpromising, makes it possible to defeat and drive away from oneself the feeling that a bird in a cage experiences.

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Our fantasy. if we can turn it on in time, it will save us from sadness and give us joy, because what we want can be seen even where it is not there, for example, we can see summer against the backdrop of a winter landscape.

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Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera.

Author @barski
Ukraine

For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.