I regularly challenge myself and here is an example! Do you see the apple orchard at the end of the green lawn? (Behind the fence)
Right, here's my challenge! I saw something move in the apple orchard and in this post I will show you if I was successful or if I failed once again.
Please join me in the challenge!
I used my zoom to plane left and right across and up and down the rows of apple trees in the orchard.
Ah! There it is! Do you see it now?
Let's look a bit closer. Do you see it?
Bang! It's a Black-headed Heron, endemic to Africa and Madagascar.
And here I put in a bit of over zoom, just to show that I still had plenty of extra zoom in the tank.
It was cold and rainy and I didn't want to wait him out standing in the rain, waiting for him to fly, so I went back inside and decided to return in a while.
There he goes! I was almost too late and only got this one shot of him in flight.
Getting back to the challenge headline of this post, I have a question; Why are so many of us dead scared of failing?
My answer is; How else would we learn if we do not fail? In my case how would I have learned to pan with a camera?
Panning means to set up a virtual grid in your mind of an area that you want to search and to swing your camera slowly sideways and up and down according to the lines of the grid.
The saying goes that you cannot be an expert on a bicycle unless you have fallen off a few times. Another saying has it that we learn from our mistakes. I don't think that there is anyone that has not made a mistake ever. Yet we all carry an inner fear of failing. Another name for a challenge is a problem. Believe me that if you don't beat the problem, it will beat you. Some simple advice here, but true.
Think about it!
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