{"id":42286,"date":"2016-09-23T06:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=42286"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:07:50","slug":"the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-bird-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-of-bird-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Bird Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

As viewers we almost never know what it really<\/em> took for the photographer to get that shot we like so much. Nor do we fully appreciate the tremendous satisfaction the photographer feels when everything finally comes together – if it ever does. This post is my attempt to illustrate the joys of setting a very difficult photographic goal and eventually succeeding after long periods of frustration.<\/p>\n

I’ll use two examples to illustrate – an image of my own and one of another photographer, Tim Laman. It’s my intention to highlight Tim’s incredible photograph but I’ll use my image as a lesser example because I can describe my personal feelings of joy and satisfaction\u00a0at eventually achieving a difficult (for me) goal.<\/p>\n

For several years I’d dreamed about capturing a dramatic\u00a0flight shot of an owl (any owl species would do) flying toward me with prey. I had several requirements for the image to meet my expectations that made achieving the goal very difficult. Those requirements included:<\/p>\n