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I think it would be worth remeasuring after all these years whether a day still lasts 24 hours and a year 365 days. I’m starting to seriously doubt it. Personally, I suspect we’re living on the lamplighter’s planet from The Little Prince, where the rotation keeps speeding up faster and faster. And I have proof! There’s a memory card that I had placed on my desk barely a few days ago to copy its contents to disk and cull the images. Today, I inserted into the reader and couldn’t believe my eyes. The card contains last year’s spring courtship of grebes! My feet are still cold from sitting in waders in the icy water of the pond. Well then. I’ll finish writing these News and go check whether mice have chewed a hole in those waders over the winter. I’m going to need them again very soon, and I’m fairly sure they’ll still be damp.
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The idea for this article was born high in the mountains, while chatting with other photographers about what we had managed to capture during the fleeting appearance of a Bearded Vulture (which I wrote about in this article). Some of us nailed the shots in the few available seconds, and others fumbled with buttons and dials—or couldn’t find the subject in the viewfinder. The difference came down to muscle memory and the ability to set the camera quickly.
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Not so long ago, my answer to the title question would have come out almost automatically: a prime lens, of course! Just a few decades ago, zoom lenses suffered from a whole range of optical compromises that made their use for portraiture and documentary photography somewhat questionable. But today? If your budget allows, you can buy a standard zoom with an f/2 aperture whose optical quality rivals — or even surpasses — many prime lenses, and instead of carrying four lenses, you can get away with just one. And yet, the popularity of prime lenses doesn’t seem to be declining. Quite the opposite. So which one is better for photographing people?
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I find that winter is a great time to look back through photos taken during the summer. And vice versa – I’m always working on my coldest photos during the hottest months. Although it has been unseasonably warm in Colorado this year, I still found myself revisiting some photos from last July earlier this week. The bright greens aren’t a color I’ll see out here in nature for another month or two, but the joy of photography is that their vibrance can be recorded for us to enjoy no matter what month it is. I hope that March brings you some good photos and interesting moments. February certainly had a lot of activity in the photography world.
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I remained motionless in the snow for three hours; time seemed to stand still. Then, there he was. He appeared to be heading straight towards me!
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