Bike…Hike…Bail

The success rate in nature photography is very low, good pictures are fairly easy to

create, but truly excellent photographs are more rare than I would care to admit and

for every morning that I get a “keeper” there are many others that I get only files

destined for the trash bin on my computer. On this particular morning I had biked,

hiked and bailed out a decrepit old rental boat, all before dawn so that I could

be on a quiet little mountain lake for sunrise. All worth it even if I had

not gotten a “keeper”.

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Common Loon, Fifth Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta