Posts Tagged “Patience”
I knew they were there. I’d seen them out there before. It’s home for them, the kind of habitat they love: woody marshland, with lots of places to hide. But time and again when I’d go out there to shoot them, they were elusive, like an acquaintance who owes you money. Wood ducks are among…
One day this summer I got up well before dawn, to load gear into the car and drive down to a favorite location in the Killbuck Marsh area, some twenty miles south. I parked the car just off the side of the dirt road, strapped gear onto my back, and headed into a field of…
I haven’t posted in awhile, but I come bearing an excuse from home: I was on vacation in September, a driving trip with my wife to Nova Scotia (via the Canadian route on the way up, and coming back down on the American side), and then my mother broke her kneecap, which at her advanced…
On a weekend photo shoot & camping trip, I was talking with my camp neighbors, who saw me lurking along the bank of the river, shooting birds. They asked about my photos, and of course I was happy to show them some of my favorites from a previous outing. Looking through shots on my phone,…
I began working my way into photography as a hobby fairly late in life. Oh, I had a definite interest much earlier, but didn’t do much about it, for any number of reasons. Back in the days of film photography, getting seriously into it took some pretty serious financial commitment; I was deeply involved in…