Riparian Institute at Water Ranch (Gilbert, Arizona) is a riparian preserve for protecting wildlife. Usually visitors need to pay a fee for tours, but I joined a free program organized by the School of Life Science, Arizona State University. The "tour guide" is a knowledgeable professor equipped with a high-power binocular. Never in my life had I observed birds in such a "close" distance. Unfortunately, I could not take picture using his lenses. Instead, what I had is just a low-power 28-300mm zoom lenses. To compensate for my hardware shortcoming, I tried to be creative. Rather than doing the same thing as that done by everybody else, I converted the photos into Chinese "water-ink paintings."