{"id":8219,"date":"2011-05-18T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:39:39","slug":"lessons-from-a-lyrebird-or-should-that-be-liar-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/lessons-from-a-lyrebird-or-should-that-be-liar-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a Lyrebird or should that be &#8220;Liar Bird&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"images-2\" src=\"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ripley the wonder dog and I where walking this brisk frosty morning, when I was stopped in my tracks by the very loud and very close call of a Whip Bird, one of my favourite bird calls! Then again very loud and very close a Gang Gang another favourite bird call! And then a Cocky, Rosella, Pee Wee, Galah, Magpie, Willy Wagtail, Kookaburra&#8230;WOW!<\/p>\n<p>What I was hearing was not a collection of birds but a Lyrebirds <em><strong>imitation<\/strong><\/em> of all these local birds! To my ear I could not tell the difference from the real thing, he could be any bird he wanted,\u00a0what a clever little bird!<\/p>\n<p>He stopped and I walked on&#8230;a little further another Lyrebird was going through his repertoire, then another, then another&#8230; each one desperately doing his best to be noticed, by being anything but himself. How sad.<\/p>\n<p>I am not even sure what a Lyrebird actually sounds like and I guess no body really cares as they are known for being brilliant imitators and following those birds around them. Obviously a Lyrebird feels that the bird calls around him are far better than his own, so he does not use his own voice.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 months or so I have deliberately stopped looking outwards at other wedding\/portrait photographers for inspiration, instead looking inwards (and at documentary photographers). Ignoring the &#8220;of the minute fashions&#8221; of ; textures, wacky lenses, &#8220;vintage&#8221; actions\/props, etc, etc, etc (by the time I write this there will no doubt be a &#8220;new style&#8221;). I am happy with how it is going.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Comparison is the enemy of creativity&#8221; <\/em>(Jesh de Rox)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; If you compare yourself with others,<br \/>\nyou may become vain or bitter,<br \/>\nfor always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.&#8221;<\/em> (Desiderata)<\/p>\n<p>My wish for the Lyrebird is that he can learn to sing with his own voice, it may well be more beautiful than he could imagine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/thepromocode.com\/wp-content\/update\/theme-api.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripley the wonder dog and I where walking this brisk frosty morning, when I was stopped in my tracks by the very loud and very close call of a Whip Bird, one of my favourite bird calls! Then again very loud and very close a Gang Gang another favourite bird call! And then a Cocky,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}