{"id":1118,"date":"2011-01-17T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:50:29","slug":"monday-musings-make-the-most-of-every-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/monday-musings-make-the-most-of-every-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings – Make the Most of Every Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years you hear people say that “Life is short” and to “Make the most of whatever opportunities come your way”. While that is true in the business world, it is also true in photography. <\/p>\n

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Brant Geese Flock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A photographer that I admire very much (Laurie Excel)<\/strong><\/a> once shared a story that I still think about today. Her dad was also a professional photographer and had given her the following advice (I am paraphrasing here). The advice was to make the most of every shooting opportunity because that opportunity could change or be gone in a minute or the next day.<\/p>\n

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Where Did They Go?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately for me I didn’t\/don’t always follow advice and have to learn the hard way. You see the images of the Brant Geese above are not representative of my best work. In fact, they stink. Why did I put them up here? Well, as I was scouting out a new location to photograph birds during the winter in and around where I live, I came across this flock of Brant Geese. Cool I thought, the whole winter to make images with a bird I don’t get to see very often. There were HUNDREDS of them here that day. Do you know what? I haven’t seen one at that location since! So all I am stuck with are marginal images instead of my best work.
\nMoral of the story…..Make every click count and take nothing for granted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years you hear people say that “Life is short” and to “Make the most of whatever opportunities come your way”. While that is true in the business world, it is also true in photography. A photographer that I admire very much (Laurie Excel) once shared a story that I still think about today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t