![]() ![]() Autumn leaves, sunsets, spring flowers, songbirds. I upgraded my camera kit to better capture the color and began to take my camera everywhere.Īfter work and on weekends I began to seek out color. I loved finding a new way to see something ordinary, but now my eyes were overwhelmed with the vividness of the world around me. Before my surgery I had taken photos of mostly still life and everyday objects. I never knew that the parking lot at work was made up of hundreds of greys and browns – I had always seen it as just kinda black. I never knew that a lawn was filled with thousands of shades of green and that each blade of grass both cast a shadow and caught a touch of sunlight. In those first moments that morning I realized that I had never really seen color before. I could see details and contrast just fine. The next morning when I went out into the sunlight I was stunned by what I saw. The surgery only took a couple of minutes, and for those seconds between when they remove your old lens and when they replace it with a new one, my field of vision was filled with swirling rainbows through liquid – it was vivid and beautiful. None of my fellow patients could imagine me having cataracts. I was the youngest person in the office by about 30 years. It never occurred to me that the culprit might be my cataracts, I assumed it was the lack of street lights. By this time I was living in a rural area and I was having difficulty driving at night. He suggested that once I began to lose the ability to focus (we all start to experience this in our 40’s) that I seriously should consider it. Now spring forward to 2006, my eye doctor had advised me that I could really benefit from cataract surgery. They looked like tiny galaxies, circular with swirls radiating from the center. ![]() One doctor even asked to photograph them – I finally got to see what the fuss was about. It made me a wildlife photographer.Įvery time I moved to a new city and got a new eye doctor, they would ask it if was OK to bring in all their staff to see my cataracts, they were very unusual, something you might only see a couple of times in a career. Make sure you have a lens with lots of reach so that you can make sure you get the shot. Years ago I was frustrated trying to get a sharp image of a robin outside a visitors center and it pushed me to focus on shooting birds every single day for a year – this experience not only helped me to learn the behaviors of birds and the best techniques for capturing them – it taught be to think fast, to learn to adjust my camera without taking my eye away from the viewfinder, to capture action. You see it everywhere – even in the city park sites. Let me share some of my favorite spots with you. You never want to miss a shot so make sure to pack a kit that’s ready for action!įor me the Parks are a treasure – never short on adventure or inspiration. I carry primes, zooms, fisheyes and more. Really capturing the essence of these remarkable places requires more than a single set up. You get a chance to shoot amazing wildlife, grand vistas, tiny details, and history. There is no better place to flex your photographic muscles than a visit to a National Park. ![]()
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