Patience

Something I have learned over the last couple months of doing this project is that photography requires quite a bit of patience. Birds and animals aren’t going to stand in one place for you so you can photograph them. You need to be ready to get out your camera the minute you see something you want to photograph. Of course things like plants aren’t going anywhere, so you can take your time, but taking pictures of animals can be quite frustrating. There are times when I see an animal I want to take a picture of, but by the time I have my camera out and ready, it has already flown or ran away. There are also instances when you get your camera out to take a picture, but since you’re rushed, you don’t take the best shots, and by the time you realize it, the animal is already gone. This happened to me recently with a pileated woodpecker. I have gotten some good shots of this bird previously, but with this last picture, I wasn’t able to centre my photo, and I accidentally cut off part of the bird feeder. These are just some of the reasons that I have realized that photography takes a lot of patience. Here is the picture where I accidentally cut off some of the bird feeder (at least I got the whole bird):