where<\/em> she might choose to jump the fence, be close enough for good detail at just the right time and place, stop my pickup on the far left side of the road so I’d have room to turn sharply to my right and get an angle on her so we could photograph her through the left side windows.\u00a0 Oh, and I had to allow time to turn off the engine to prevent vibration.<\/p>\nIt almost worked.\u00a0 By the\u00a0time I located her through my lens and got sharp focus lock, her prime position as she cleared the fence was gone.\u00a0 This was the first truly sharp shot that I got.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that this is much more than most of you want to know about\u00a0photography strategies and problems while pulling a trailer but writing this has been a bit of a catharsis for me.\u00a0\u00a0Typically, by the time I hit the pavement and turn south I’m moaning and groaning about the shots I missed on these trips out (on this morning it was 3 beautiful, juvenile Ferruginous Hawks on the ground close to the road that we simply didn’t see in time).\u00a0 And I relive them time and again over the next few days, wondering what I could have done differently.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
PS – \u00a0my pickup\u00a0is so full of dust when I get home that my cleaning strategy is to open all four doors and use the air compressor to blow out the worst of it.\u00a0 Looks like a dust storm when I do…<\/p>\n
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When we leave one of our favorite Montana camping spots for the long drive home it means almost 30 miles of extremely dusty dirt\/gravel roads through prime bird and wildlife habitat before we hit pavement. We nearly always leave at sunrise in case there are photo opportunities on the way out – typically those opportunities include raptors on posts, poles or in flight, songbirds, elk, deer, pronghorn – even badgers.<\/p>\n
If the roads are good (as they are this year) that drive takes at least an hour when I’m pulling my camping trailer but if we find wildlife, as we often do, it can take two hours or more. And believe me, photographing wildlife while you’re pulling a trailer is a bit of a challenge.<\/p>\n
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