I always love to capture that moment when a bird leaps onto the air, when they take flight. I think of it as ‘blind faith’.

I never gave it much thought until I started to photograph the big birds in these swamps, especially the young ones.

When they learn to fly here in the swamps, a young bird must eventually jump from the branches, into the air, assuming they will fly.

Down below there are Alligators. These birds are well aware of them too.