Myers attuned to birds and images – InkFreeNews.com

By Abby Oliver
InkFreeNews

Cindi Myers holds an image body containing her award-winning photograph, “Otterly Adorable,” which was a winner of the Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology Historic Preservation Month photograph contest. Photo offered by Cindi Myers.

Before the solar rises, Cindi Myers is usually in her automobile, looking for birds, wildlife and landscapes. What began as pandemic-era automobile rides has develop into a every day routine constructed round early mornings, evenings and images.

Myers grew up in Indianapolis, however her household moved to Syracuse within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. She has lived in Goshen – the place she graduated from Goshen High School – Syracuse and Bristol, and Millersburg for the previous 14 years.

Her husband of 27 years is a Fairfield High School graduate. The couple moved to Millersburg so their kids may attend the college.

For a number of years, Myers has labored from house doing medical billing. She mentioned the job “fell into (her) lap” when she wished to remain house extra. She is at the moment looking for one other place.

Between jobs, Myers has had extra time for household, thrift shops and images, which has taken her throughout the globe and related her with others.

Myers has all the time cherished birds, a ardour inherited from her grandmother. Her grandfather was a photographer, and she or he is digitizing his outdated slides.

“It just makes me feel really close to him,” she mentioned. He photographed hummingbirds and butterflies, simply as she does now.

Her curiosity in images grew through the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Myers and her husband started taking automobile rides, and she or he began bringing her digital camera alongside.

“No matter where you live, you can find beauty around you,” she mentioned.

The “nature drives” grew to become routine. Her days now usually start earlier than dawn and finish with sundown images.

“Nature is my happy place,” Myers mentioned. “I always feel better when I have some time spent in nature.”

In the previous two years, images has taken her overseas, together with a visit to Ireland to {photograph} puffins on the Saltee Islands.

“That’s the entire reason she wanted to go to Ireland,” mentioned her daughter, Emily.

For their anniversary, Myers and her husband traveled to Canada to {photograph} birds.

A photograph by Cindi Myers of a bridge in Noble County throughout sundown. A submit of the photograph on Facebook obtained over 5,000 likes and 166 feedback. Photo offered by Cindi Myers.

“If we go somewhere, I plan where I’m going to take pictures near there,” she mentioned.

Myers makes use of a Nikon V500, a digital digital camera requiring handbook settings. She mentioned it’s each a problem and an journey.

“You have to figure out different lighting, with different settings, and different animals, whether they’re still or moving,” she mentioned.

Her images has develop into greater than a passion. She has gained a number of native contests, together with the Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Month photograph contest.

Her successful entry featured the Round Barn in Nappanee with the Northern Lights overhead.

“I really wanted to find an iconic building around here and get the lights over it,” she mentioned.

In one other contest, a photograph of an otter at Ripper Preserve Park in Goshen earned her state honest tickets and was later displayed within the lieutenant governor’s workplace in Indianapolis.

Myers shares her photographs on Indiana Wildlife and Indiana Landscape Photography Facebook pages.

“I just really enjoy sharing what I see,” she mentioned.

Although profitable, Myers doesn’t need images to develop into her job, fearing it could take away from her enjoyment.

“I don’t have any kind of training. I just kind of learned, taught myself the DSLR camera,” she mentioned.

One Facebook photograph obtained 5,000 likes and 166 feedback.

For Myers, it’s moments like these – a deer within the fog or a fowl in flight – that outline her work. She encourages others to take pleasure in nature every time they will.

“Just get out there and enjoy nature, and take time to smell the roses,” she mentioned.

“And watch where you step,” she added with fun. She as soon as broke her ankle in three locations and later returned to photographing a sandhill crane migration from a wheelchair.

Whatever individuals take pleasure in doing, she encourages them to “take the time to do it” and “feed your soul.”