KEEP YOUR EQUIPMENT READY
Your camera equipment should always be ready, and the camera and lens adjustments should be set for action photography.
One painful example of why I need to keep repeating this piece of wisdom to myself is when I took a photo trip to Ordesa National Park in northern Spain. We got back to our transport at the end of a particularly long day in the blind. Having walked through heavy snowfall in the darkening afternoon, I thought I was done photographing for the day so I packed my gear in my backpack. We started driving slowly down a winding mountain road, and just five minutes later I spotted a group of Gray Partridges on the side of the road. We stopped, and the partridges hurried away from us on the snow, ...
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