Patience
One word that has never been used to describe me is patient. I can't stand to wait. I don't like to wait for sales to get something that I really want. I can't stand waiting for someone who is late. And I don't want to wait for the off-chance that something will happen. That doesn't bode well for bird photography. Capturing birds requires patience. DW and I have taken our cameras out several times a week to photograph birds. Sometimes, we'll go out a couple of times in one day. We'll walk the trails around Bruce Pit or Mud Lake (and, this past weekend, the Fletcher Wildlife Gardens), hoping to stumble upon a bird that we can capture on a branch or on a fence, or even on the ground. But what we don't do is pick out a spot and wait for something to happen. I won't go to a spot and just sit there. And that's probably why I'm not great at photographing birds. When I see a bird in a tree, I will unclip my camera from a quick-release clamp on a sho...
