{"id":127245,"date":"2023-01-12T05:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=127245"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:09:10","slug":"yoon-lee-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/yoon-lee-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Lee – An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

A much-needed pick-me-up.<\/p>\n

Blog followers may remember Yoon Lee, the high school student from Seattle, Washington who contacted me last June just prior to visiting Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge with his parents. I was unaware that he’d been following my blog for two years and in his email he thanked me for inspiring him in his bird photography journey, and by implication his scholastic endeavors which lean strongly in the direction of environmental studies and birds.<\/p>\n

Yoon Lee’s email was a real pick-me-up for me personally, for reasons I explained in this blog post on June 19, 2022<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Please follow the link to read that post (and Yoon Lee’s original email) again to provide context for the rest of today’s post.<\/p>\n

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At 7:30 last night, after yet another day of being down in the dumps while being confined at home by surgery recovery and poor weather and light for bird photography, I heard from Yoon Lee once again. This time he provided an update on how his trip to Bear River went and recent developments in his academic career. The response from my readers to my original post about Yoon Lee was so enthusiastically positive I thought many of you would be interested in what he had to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear Mr. Dudley,<\/em><\/div>\n
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Hello! I really appreciated the blog post you made following my email! I thought I would update you on some of the items I brought up in the original email.<\/em><\/div>\n
I had a blast at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge! You were right to recommend bug spray and it was certainly annoying without it, but I still had so much fun rushing to keep track of all the birds I saw. It was unlike anything I’d seen before and I’m grateful to have had that opportunity.<\/em><\/div>\n
I actually wrote a piece in my school newspaper about the Great Salt Lake, inspired by that trip and by a New York Times piece on it, if you’re interested you can read it here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/em><\/div>\n
Finally, I mentioned how I was thinking about ornithology in college, and I am excited to report that I am currently committed to Cornell University! I’m going into the Environment and Sustainability major and am looking to study birds as part of that intersection of humanities and science.<\/em><\/div>\n
Thank you for the continued inspiration and have a great rest of your week!<\/em><\/div>\n
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Sincerely,<\/em><\/div>\n
Yoon Lee<\/em><\/div>\n
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Midge “tornadoes” at Bear River MBR<\/em><\/p>\n

In his email he mentioned being bothered by insects at the refuge. This is an older photo of midge “tornadoes” at Bear River. The midges were so thick in the air I couldn’t get my lens to focus on the car. Midges can be incredibly intimidating psychologically but they don’t bite or sting. These days I rarely, if ever, see midge tornadoes because of the receding Great Salt Lake but Yoon Lee’s biggest problem at the refuge was mosquitoes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You can imagine how delighted I was to learn that Yoon Lee is following through with his original intention to pursue environmental and bird-related subjects in college and there isn’t a better place to do it than Cornell University, home of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a><\/span><\/span> and a host of highly respected environmental offerings.<\/p>\n

At the risk of making this post more about me than I intended, I have a confession to make. In a world increasingly dominated by much younger people, like many folks my age (75) I’ll admit to wondering if my life, and any influence I might have, are becoming increasingly irrelevant, even obsolete.<\/p>\n

My correspondence with Yoon Lee has reassured me to some degree and for that, this old biology and zoology teacher is grateful.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: A photo of Yoon Lee can be seen here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A much-needed pick-me-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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