Owlet plus rookie photog rant

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I stopped by the owl nest yesterday around 6pm to see if I might sneak a photo of the elusive-to-me owlet.  I’m still learning so much, even focusing with a zoom lens that is supposed to auto-focus does not seem to work, so this made my fourth trip out there since I really would like to eventually get a great photograph of these beautiful birds.

When I got there there was one guy out with a camera, an obvious photographer.  Another arrived with a ginormous camera, lens and tripod.  And within the space of the approximate 20 minutes I was there, a total of four more photographers showed up, most with tripods, plus some kids.

The noise from the kids and the chatty photographers was obscene.  I sat in my car the entire time, with my seat leaned back so I could be as unobtrusive for the owls as possible, but the rest of the humans there made me ashamed to be a part of humanity.  No respect for the gorgeous animals was paid, instead, these people acted like they were part of a big human circus.  This is not the kind of photographer I want to be or be affiliated with, so I left.  I just feel really badly for the owls that had to stay……

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