Quote Originally Posted by Bill W


Denise, if you want to step up to Bob's and Joel's level, you need to add uniqueness to your pix; e.g. your GBH, technically it looks sound, but (sorry) it's boring. I know GBHs stand around quite sometime w/out moving, but you want them doing something, e.g. spreading wings, flying, trying to capture food, drooping their wings to cool, interaction, etc. IMHO you're getting closer.....now add patience to capture uniqueness D.


Forgive me if I've stepped over the line......


Bill

No problem and I absolutely agree. I have caught many photos of wings spread and bif but yesterday, I could not get this one to move no matter how close I got. This GBH has been very skittish of me since it's arrival a few weeks ago ...gone in a blink if I so much as moved on the other side of the pond. So yesterday, I was basically slowly building trust and testing how close I could get ...without falling in the very steep pond. When he started to let me get too close even for my own comfort, I figured there was a reason he wasn't budging and I backed off. So, for the ones above, I just went for the basic portrait.

This is from the other day. Not very sharp but alittle less boring ...