Flawed images can still be of value to the photographer – they can teach us new lessons or remind us of old ones previously learned but temporarily forgotten in the heat of the moment.
Normally you’d have to place a stick of dynamite under me to get me to leave a perched Golden Eagle but yesterday this rare Upland Sandpiper enticed me to do just that.
I wasn’t expecting to get close to a Golden Eagle while pulling a camping trailer behind my pickup but that’s exactly what happened early yesterday morning as I was leaving Wayne County on my way home.
Golden Eagles are my #1 photographic quarry. I’d rather get a magnificent flight shot of one of these regal birds than any other species I can think of and that includes other raptors like Snowy Owls and Gyrfalcons.
For the past several weeks I’ve sporadically been photographing Golden Eagles on Antelope Island. Yesterday morning was the most fun (and the most disappointing) time with them yet.
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