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Time, it is just so bloody important to the wildlife photographer.
Putting in your time on every aspect of your photography is a must and when done, it pays back big dividends, guaranteed. This is probably no truer than when trying to get a photograph of elusive subjects. This is a Mountain Goat photographed today in Glacier Nat’l Park. For six days we kept going to the slope they haunt only to see them way in the hell up the hill where, only goats go. I knew that if we put in the time, we would eventually get a shot at the goats.
Sitting, waiting, watching, getting “skunked” in that all we garnished for our time was information and no pics, it is so hard for wildlife photographers to just sit and watch, put in the time. Well, we put in the time one more time today and wam, their they came down the hill and into our viewfinders. No, it’s not the best photo. No, it’s not the greatest light. No, it’s not the best background. But it does show that time is still the most important aspect to photography. And that kid looking from behind mom is damn cute!
Photo captured by D3x, 600VR on Lexar UDMA digital film