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After swallowing my dessert, I brushed my teeth and groomed and then hop, on my pouffe in my room and I fell asleep in front of the National Geographics Channel which opened up new perspectives for me and everything in my head turned upside down.

My human side had just taken another leap forward. I had a professional future after all and zoology was a very promising one!

Outdoor life, exploration, peaceful use of my gifts, travel, adventures, friends and lots of things to do. My view of Kardon had taken 180°.

In the morning, I took my lunch in a bag and spent it near my mother with whom I occasionally shared a chocolate thing.

Rudia: "You seem in a hurry! What's going on?"

Me: "A school teacher told me that I could have many jobs even with a size of a house: Photographer! I saw some great stuff on TV!

And the more original, the more you can win!

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And I'm going to have a great camera!

Rudia: "Good for you! Have fun then! And be careful. And above all: NEVER TRUST THE HUMANS! NEVER EVER!"

"Yes, mMAn! And I kissed both eggs and flew like crazy to the pit hotel in Houffalize.

There, many Flemish tourists.

The teacher was waiting for me in the park, near the children's playground.

He gave me an old but sophisticated device that looked more like a grenade launcher than a mobile phone.

Be careful not to let him down. It's rare, expensive and time-consuming to repair.

First rule, I'll give you a digital reflex.

You hold it firmly and avoid moving. If you're afraid your claws will scratch it, then tape it on the tips and you'll gain in accuracy and it will slip less.

There you place your eye and here a zoom. You can enlarge and reduce.

"Ohh, it's magical! You can see far and near."

Kardon: "You see, here it's bright and the images are beautiful but if you go to darker areas..."

"But I can see in the dark!!!!!"

KArdon: "He doesn't!" I mean, yes, but you have to adjust it and that's where it's important with IR photography.

We're going to start taking pictures of children playing."

After half an hour of taking pictures,

most of them were blurry or failed.

Kardon: "You see it's not that simple.

Imagine if it was the birth of your brothers!

They've all failed.... You can't ask them to get into the shell and try again... No! Don't tell me you've thought about it!"

I had an idiot smile on my face...(snout)

"You're right, Mr. Kardon!"

Kardon:" It doesn't matter. We'll analyze your mistakes!"

We take then a close look on the argentic camera and the digital one (the first pictures were with the digital to find all errors).

Here you put your finger in front of the lens, there you moved, here the depth is not respected and there you aimed at the sun and there you are out of field.

All right, we'll get some flowers first.

He took out a tripod and fixed the camera on it.

There, here it doesn't move anymore and you use the pointer. We did some tests and I passed all the photos. We recorded them and moved the bad ones to another directory.

He taught me directories, files and how to transmit everything on a PC.

Kardon: "If you work well, this computer is yours!"

Me: "Wow, a laptop of my own!!!!!"

I jumped of joy!

Kardon: "In addition, you will need it at school to record your lessons when your claws are too big for pencils and picks."

Me "Thank you, Professor!"

Then after a meal in the hotel canteen, we continue with the moving objects. The children who were tobogganing and running.

LIGHT! Everything is in the light!

The more light there is, the clearer your picture of a moving object will be.

Besides, you need to know your camera.

I like silver photos better than digital ones because.

Wait, give it a try!

Take the bird, there it goes!

I aimed at the bird and made a clik

Then I looked around: Nothing! No birds!

Professor, I missed again!

No, you clicked at the right time but the shot was delayed by half a second. It's the computer on the device that's lying around. You have to take that into account. And in some cases that's impossible. You anticipate and it doesn't come and then it happens when you don't have time to press and it's still not working.

The silver photo is instantaneous, just the sensitization of the negative which is known but the point of attack, the opening of the lid is instantaneous and has a fixed duration to set.

You have to use a light analyzer and some of them have integrated it.

Did you notice anything?

I said, "What?"

Kids don't jump on you!

I said, "That's right! Why?"

Kardon: "The magic of photography: Seeing without being seen! They didn't see you, you were using the zoom and telephoto lens."

It was a lot in one day but it was full.

I then returned to Mommy's side to show her my camera.

Rudia: "That's good! "

I showed her what I had learned and she thought it was good to use means to see without being seen. But she looked especially at the fact that the device was not transmitting.

Rudia: "No pictures of where we're hiding, okay? Promise?"

I said, "Yes, Mom..."

Excited, I flew back to the farm to show my efforts and Eric said:

"Wow, great your thing."

We took a lot of stupid pictures and Eric even made a selfie of something that wasn't right!

Me: "Stop, if he sees them I'll be scolded..."

Then he saw an image of Mom's eye and fell back and put himself in a corner: "NOOOONN, please, not her!"

I took back my precious camera from Eric's shaky hands and then Celine shouted:

"SOUPER! (evening lunch in french!) we rushed into the corridor(Tchick Tchick Tchick made my claws on the blue stones) of our games room to the kitchen and I slipped with my claws on the blue stone and Eric arrived first: " LOSED this time!"

Me, grumbling: "With your soles, you don't slip! "

We had tomato soup, meatballs and spaghetti letters in it.

I was trying to make words with it and it was funny.

We were stealing letters from each other's plates. And Celine had to be tough.

"She ate all the bread!"

"He only left me two dumplings!"

Then came the dish that I loved a parmentier hachi, its spinach and a gratin dauphinois with cream. MMMMMMM

Celine: "Ohhhh, Emily, you've got it everywhere! Look at you in the mirror!"

"I had plenty of cream on my snout and lips and it had dripped on my neck. I wiped myself by reflex and spread the creams all the way to the folds of my wing skin."

Celine: "Are you in the moon or what???? We've never seen you so excited!"

I took my shower and then I rushed into my bed

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

The next day the same: bread rolls/sausage rolls, a lick for Celine, Rudia and I am back in Houffalize.

The mobile target were tried again and adapted to the lighting. After a lot of effort, it was not easy, we switched to macro lenses to photograph distant insects and animals with a telephoto lens.

I was in a hurry to learn because I knew the birth was imminent!

We spent the evening doing night photography and setting up photo traps.

The next day, the same!

We went to see burrows, I helped with my sense of smell to find them and we dug and put in undyed windows and infrared light that I knew I could see but not the animals and took pictures.

All the infrastructure was important.

I made a paper model of the nest and where and how I should take the pictures.

We trained with rocks.

Then he gave me a second device that saw in infrared and took measurements of temperature and color richness, ambient humidity and could also scan in 3D and do telemetry, measure density by sonar and analysis, a chemical composition by spectrum analysis.

It's like the camera, everything is programmed and he will give these instructions.

He also gave me bags to take the stool and the beak.

He gave me an official stamp as a trainee animal photographer. But I would have to review the basics afterwards, but we were in a hurry.

I spent the next day looking after the eggs with my mother and started incubating them as well as following her instructions while she was out hunting something for us to eat.

She brought me a pheasant and she bit into some very sleepy wild boar and cooked them in her mouth.

Rudia: "I'm bored without you! I really need to take a walk one of these days. I want to go for a walk in Scotland or Norway and eat seals and goats. I love it when their pi is full of milk, their juice is exquisite!

Me, in my head (poor seals..., poor sheep...)

"Mom, you forget the little ones..."

Rudia: "Also, I smelled a special smell... I don't know what interests me, coming from the north"

Okay, Ruby, you still have to learn one more important thing: "communicate over long distances and it also works for humans and other creatures but you have to initiate the channel"

She started talking in my head and I had to say the same thing

Then, in the middle of the day, I had the willingness to open a communication but I perceived a lot of interference or put my head on.

Rudia: "It is your horns that emit and receive like radio antennas. The more serious it is, the more you can communicate far away. When you master this technique, you will be able to possess prey like me, see with my eyes, see with the eyes of another and those to whom you speak will be able to see through your eyes too."

Tik

We turned around! to the eggs.

Rudia: "I think it started! One of them started hitting the wall. They're going to try to get out.

I quickly set up the equipment so as not to lose anything and I switched on 3 cameras, one that took repeated high-resolution shots, the measuring station and a normal camera.

I saw on the screen that everything was well adjusted.

Rudia closed her eyes to detect if there was a signal or a transmitter but nothing. So she approved. She was not an idiot and knew this kind of device well. Not the measurer, but she suspected it was to measure the temperature and other things.

TIK???