It’s important to have goals in your photography I think. That’s not to say I do it a lot, but last winter I got inspired learning about Moose Peterson’s aviation photography. In the picture taking of airplanes, with propellers, you ideally want to have the prop blurred substantially. It just looks more realistic, like it’s moving, and you should present that aspect of it. So to do this, he shoots at very slow shutter speeds…even though some planes could be moving quite fast. This got me to thinking, it might be fun to try this with eagles…there are a few places they make some nice passes and once the light got low enough I could take the shutter speeds down to 1/100th or so, and blur the background and wingtips. If they glided by, all the better because sometimes everything was sharp. This is not to say you get a lot of keepers doing this…the payoff is slim, but sometimes when the timing is right, you get something kind of out of the ordinary. Goal accomplished.