WIF

As you may be aware, I'm a big fan of Mat-Made Acronyms, and believe me, I have a ton of them! One of my favorites is "SEP" - Somebody Else's Problem, but I digress ...

A very common photographical acronym is BIF - or Birds in Flight so this post is aptly titled WIF for "Waterfowl in Flight" or "Wigeons in Flight" =)

Have you ever tried to shoot WIFs? Man, those things fly at what seems like Mach IV! Locking focus and panning was unbelievably difficult, but was also tremendously fun! What a blast seeing these guys flying in from a distance, trying to find them in the viewfinder ... then trying to get focus ... trying to follow them along their flightpath ... all the while trying to remember compositional rules?! Sheesh!

Needless to say, these are all crops for a variety of reasons. The 2 different ducks against the sky are crops simply because 300mm is a tad too short for birding, as well as to improve the compositions slightly. The slightly out of focus wigeon coming in for a landing is only a slight crop, which I could have left entirely alone and been just fine.

It will be more and more difficult this month to maintain a posting and commenting regimen. 25 more sleeps until our annual flyfishing trip to Montana, and believe me, I'm WAY behind in my flytying! I trust everyone understands.

Mat