For this prompt, our inspiration was “weight or mass.” In this photo, I chose to focus on the conceptual contrast between the bird and the boulder–the bird being light and delicate, one of the lightest animals on earth, and the boulder being a massive and immovable rock. In this image, these two concepts come together. I was using the kit lens, so I had to get closer to the bird to get this intimate shot. Getting this close required me to approach very, very slowly. This close-range photo also revealed a variety of textures in the grass, gravel, granite, and feathers.
To edit this photo, I cropped it to the rule of thirds and used a subtle overlay blending mode to bring out the yellow of the bird to make it pop and coordinate better with the brilliantly yellow leaves.