Learning Patience With Photography. That is the current challenge I am facing in learning to be a photographer; a better photographer than the raw talent amateur photographer I am presently.
I can’t decide whether I am a patient person or not. If he was in the little vintage trailer I am camping out in at the moment, I would ask the awesome teen his thoughts. Sure it would get a giggle. Like most teens, he is pretty funny, especially when the opportunity arises to diss Mom. What could be more fun for a 16 year old?
I guess I will just have to settle on ‘sometimes I am patient and sometimes I am not’ and go from there.
The day I took the photo above, I wish I had been in the ‘be smart and be patient’ mode. Think what a great shot it would have been if I had simply waited a minute more or two until the bee started to fly away… and caught that as opposed to a shot of its backside only.
That photo would have been pretty spectacular most likely. The above shot is decent, and thanks to my digital Cannon PowerShot camera clean with vibrant color. But a bee in flight, with those colors and the background shot of the cacti blossom in full bloom?
That would have been spectacular.
Live and learn, and for me, the learning usually comes in the doing, like the lesson I learnd from this day out hiking in beautiful USA.
Me: “Blog where have you been buddy? Haven’t seen you around much lately?
The Blog: “Out hiking with my camera.”
Me: “That is awesome! Where do you like to go?
The Blog: “Where ‘nature meets the end of the road’ kind-of places”
Me: “Like desert to water or mountains to lakes?”
The Blog: “Kind-of, but not quite. More like where I can get to a restaurant or bar in the shortest time and distance as possible after my hike.”