Another quick post this one about chickens. Or animals that aren’t dogs or cats. One of the cooler things about Puerto Rico, at least in my opinion is that there were chickens and roosters everywhere. No one owns them as far as I can tell they are just there, doing their thing. There was a rooster nearby that woke me at exactly the time I wanted to wake up each morning. It was awesome. Anyway, the chickens were a fun opportunity to photograph something I don’t normally photograph.
To be clear, the only thing I really know about chickens is they go great in the pot pies I make and they have feathers. When I encounter an animal I don’t know much about but want to photograph it, I only get as close as I think I need to be but also be able to escape should it get mad at me. Thankfully, I have a 70-200 MM lens so I could stand 10 to 15 feet away and photograph them. I might have been willing to settle for a 90mm prime lens that’d probably put me at 8 to 10 feet away which would have been my comfort limit.
All that stated, the fatal flaw with my thinking is that some animals are actually much faster then I might be able to guess, which is why if it is bigger than a chicken, I follow my other rule: go learn about the animal first and then try to photograph it. You hear about people getting attacked by bison or bears or all sorts of animals every now and then and I’d wager 90% of the time it was people not knowing about the animal they were close to and suffering the consequences for that lack of knowledge.
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