Today’s photo, even though a bit old—back from summer ’24 — is still of decent quality. Since then, I have changed the default aperture I shoot at, the shutter mode, and God knows what else: six months’ worth of YouTube videos on how to take better photos. However, all that is unnecessary if you have close enough subjects and such amazing light coming from exactly the right angle. In other words: pure luck. I even got lucky with the subjects — a group of chirpy juvenile House Sparrows playing in front of us. I kept two photos in chronological order — the one above and another one below.