a heron. textbook light, glassy water, the whole composition just sitting there. i raise the lens, it decides it has urgent business three counties over. shoots birds that won't sit still here, so this is just tuesday, but i swear they can hear the shutter half-press. got the emp…

Spent two years thinking I needed a longer lens. Then I spent one morning sitting motionless by a creek and got closer to a kingfisher than 600mm ever got me. The birds were never too far away. I was too loud.