TOPGUN, I submitted a few photos to Wyoming wildlife contest a few years back but never even got an honorable mention let alone place. But since that time I have learned a lot and meant to submit a few photos this past year, but got busy with life and missed the deadline. Perhaps next year I will try again.
I love photography as much or more than hunting now. It's very much the same as bowhunting. You have to do everything you do in bowhunting to get close and if you want a really good photograph, the closer you get the better the photo in most cases.
I don't have a big expensive, fancy lens, and most all the critters I shoot are wild animals and not park animals, so getting close is a must. So a good photo brings much satisfaction.
My problem is I started this much too late in life. I used to have good eyes, but now I have cataracts and don't see well so that really hurts a lot as your eye is key to a good photo. But every once in a while the camera gets a good focus and I am able to get a good photo.
But most of all, I find much pleasure in shooting wildlife photos and will continue to do it just for the satisfaction I get from doing it.
