This image expresses just about everything that photography means to me: capturing an instance of reflected light. Of all the miracles of life, vision is the one that has always intrigued me the most. I've always been amazed by the idea that a bird could be flying across an open field, and somehow, light could hit it and be reflected into my eyes, so that I might notice it. Just think about how its movements are constantly reflecting light that will come through to me in perceptable waves of energy. And the thought that you and I may notice the same thing at the same time, but from different perspectives which means that we are receiving the same light waves, but recording them differently...

For me, the pursuit of photography is to capture those instances of light, those moments, those glimpses, and try to do it as my eye would. It is all so fleeting. That's why I am so blown away by this image.