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Well I shot something eventually

My mission to take Steemit and DTube outdoors today took me to Braeside Park which is north east of my home. It's a large open space of mostly undisturbed land and is quite popular with wildlife photographers. And photographing wildlife was the mission for today.

I've never been to this location before which meant that I didn't expect to take many photographs, if any. This is for one simple reason:

• You need to be either very familiar with the species you're hunting or very familiar with the location when expecting to take a great photo.

You need to understand how the species you're hunting will behave and it pays very large dividends to know where these species frequent when hunting them, hence knowing your location well.

And to make matters even more challenging today, the cloud cover was incredibly thick which really dampened the light. I don't like photographing in low light since it forces me to raise my ISO setting to uncomfortably high levels, which leads to grainy photographs and a slow shutter speed given that I tend to photograph in Aperture Priority.

At the end of the day I only managed to take a couple of half decent photographs of a Kookaburra. They're definitely nothing I'll be raving about but I do like these entertaining creatures.

So rather than focus too much on these photos here's one that I'm quite fond of that I took quite some time ago.

I'll definitely head back to Braeside Park again though. There are some species of bird here that are well worth hunting for. Hopefully I'll be able to bring you some much better photos in the near future!

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Leave a link to your favourite own photos (that you've taken) in the comments below. I'd love to check them out.

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