Today was just one of those days, I had to get out, I needed to get away from my kids. HAD to. I had gone out in the morning, and got some good practice shooting in manual mode in harsh sunlight with the eagle. In some ways it was really good for me. I still have a hard time following, and there are some limitations that are not due to lack of experience, but having an older lens, that seems to work best with ideal lighting.
My hardest thing to do right now, and even the pro photographers that I have talked to have said it just takes, practice practice practice, is following a subject like a bald eagle. But my lens even though its a 170-500mm Zoom lens, will not always give the detail and clarity that I want. Not only do I need a 1.4 or a 1.7 converter, but I am not even sure I can 'manual' focus my lens like I can other lenses on my Nikon Camera.
I had stopped by one of the places I go to scout out eagles. The eagle was there in the morning and I took a couple of blown up 8.5 x 11s of shots that I took, but there was no eagle, so I headed onto Swan Harbor where not much was going on, there were some dear in the distance, but again, the photos that far away turn out fuzzy. You can see enough detail in them, but they lacked clarity.
So knowing it was getting towards dinner time, and my family wanted 'good bread' I headed back home, but something told me to stop back by the tatoo shop....I didn't see the eagle right away, he was down by the edge of the water, just laying there....I started walking towards it but keeping my distance, well he flew off, but he circled back around and came and perched in the tree.
I was able to get about 20 feet from him and some incredible shots
But then someone drove up in their truck and not knowing he was in the tree slammed their door, and off he took.
But this is one of the shots I got of him.
Eagles will forever be one of my favorite birds to shoot.
Had I not followed my instinct and gone back, just to see if he was there, I would have missed this shot.
Until Next time
God Bless
