There’s a long story behind this image, but I am just going to make this brief. This was taken the 2nd day of me owning a digital camera. It was a Canon Rebel 300D with a 100-400mm lens on it, and I was practicing photographing Grizzlies before I headed to Alaska. The reason I am showing this is because: one only a few people have ever seen this shot, and 2nd I thought I had lost this shot forever. Today while I was unpacking some more stuff I stumbled upon this little 80GB HDD out of a case and just sitting in a box. I put it in an enclosure and plugged it in and to my surprise starring back at me were images that I thought had been lost from over 4 years ago. I quickly made a back up of the drive and then started to go back through the files, and to my shear happiness I came across this image. I was one of my favorites back then and it still is now.
It truly is amazing how images can bring emotions to the surface and bring back the memories of a moment in time. I hope you enjoy this image as much as I have
This is a cropped shot at 100% of the image above, with nothing done to it in post. I could not believe how sharp this lens is, and might I add this was handheld as well. That’s right folks, no tripods here spooking the little guy away, just me the camera and the VR all working together to make a fun shot.
