I like to pray, but I’m never sure who or what I’m praying to. I pray for love and empathy to emerge again in our battered world. I believe it will. I can’t pray to God as most people do, because I’m unsure who or what God is. But having watched birds so closely for weeks, I feel a lot of power from these remarkable creatures. Before I got my Leica, I paid little attention to them, but now I can’t stay away. These are my photo companions in prayer today.