Day 315 / 680 –
This was shot in Yosemite National Park (map to the waterfall). I love doing nature photography like this. It is a chance to slow down and really look around, get away from the noise of the city (like the helicopter that has been buzzing overhead for the last hour or so), and appreciate the things we didn’t pave over.
Of course, there are a ton of nature photographers out there, many of them (most of them) better than I am. They have the hours and days and years of practice put in. I’m a weekend warrior in this sense. They also often have cameras and lenses that are way above the capabilities of mine, but that doesn’t matter as much as we like to tell ourselves. Yes, a $6,000 camera (like the one used by the current nature photographer of the year) and heavy and expensive lenses can produce better results, mostly in image quality and technical areas. But I’m shooting mostly with a Sony a6000 and the lenses that came with it (and a manual 12mm super wide lens). I think I do OK.
They say the camera doesn’t matter, and I think that’s a bunch of hooey. Of course the camera matters, but it doesn’t mean everything. The best camera is the one you have in your hand. Go take some pictures.