Getting that amazing photo can come down to equipment, talent and skill or asking the photo musses' to let me be in the right place at the right time along with equipment, talent and skill.
After a cold swim I was laying on a picnic table warming up in the sun when a shadow of an immature bold eagle (they don't get their white heads till after 2 years of age) crossed over me and I somehow got a photo of the eagle and a dragonfly.
Then I was returning to my car after one of my snorkeling adventures that was fun but proved to be uneventful in capturing an award-winning photo but on the ground next to my car was this colorful butterfly.
The butterfly took off and I chased it trying to get a better photo but lost it in the sun, so I returned to my car to find the butterfly waiting for me on my windshield.
On a bike and photo expedition photo’ing wildflowers I found this butterfly when I came back resting on my camera bag.
Summer is here and I'm out snorkeling every chance I get but not everything I photo is under the water like this dragonfly I noticed resting on a Lilypad.
On this same snorkel I dove down to shoot skywards to capture Lilly pads reaching for the sun when out of nowhere a loon swimming underwater comes up to me and checks me out, goes around me and disappears.
Gob smacked I remember I need to surface and breathe. I grab a gulp of air and try figure out what just happened when two loons’ surface right in front of me. there is no panic amongst the 3 of us, they let me get a couple of photos before they go back to the business of being loons.
