My Prize for Today

[FDCPR]

I broke down and bought a one-man chair blind to use for some of the areas I visit for wildlife. It arrived last week and I chose today as my first day to use it. Perfect opportunity, cloudy sky, threatening rain, these conditions mean the Ospreys will land in a good area to shoot some photos. Loaded all the junk into the pickup, drove to the location then hiked the mile to the selected ambush sight. Setup the tripod and blind, then settled in for the wait. Within fifteen minutes there was a hard down pouring of rain, my equipment and I both stayed nice and dry in the new blind. Wow works fine, this is a great improvement.
Now an hour has passed, the nice dry blind quickly turned into a miserable steam sauna. Two hours, nothing in sight and I'm drenched from sweat. Three hours...five hours. Hey what's that shadow? Here we go, time to shoot. Okay shadow is getting smaller, he's getting ready to land. Dang this one is really close guess he's landing on the shore.
WHAT? You gotta be kidding me. Five hours, ten pounds of weight loss and here's my prize winning photo...I then packed up and left the area for a nice air conditioned one.The walk back to the truck was murder...

[SoxAddict]

That's my favorite DPS story ever! I laughed at your commentary (laughing "with" you, not "at" you!). You're obviously a very patient photographer, love it. And definitely a prize-winning shot too :-)

[Grampa D]

A "9" for the photo. A "10+" for the dialogue.

[pjflan7]

aw shucks, you had me there! Sorry only the little birdies decided to come near....did generate a good laugh though

[kgb224]

Well who knows this might just be a jewel for all that you have suffered.
Outstanding capture.