You know you're getting old when... (image heavy)

[Retail Associate]

...you spend hours sitting in your backyard trying to capture pictures of the Bluebirds who have nested in your birdhouse.

Mama guarding the nest:



She's keeping her eye on me:



The proud parents:



The Eggs:



She's been incubating the eggs for a week now and they will hopefully hatch within the next 5 - 7 days. I'm gonna be a grandma!

[Jester]

I have friends who are photographers, and I have been known to snap a pic or two. But HOURS? Really?

Thank you for reminding me that I am really not old, as that is something that would never even occur to me to do. I was starting to feel old till I read this!

[Retail Associate]

I'm not a photographer, that's probably why it took so long. So many of the pictures were blurry because I shake too much.

But I have enjoyed watching them.

[mikoyan29]

I have friends who are photographers, and I have been known to snap a pic or two. But HOURS? Really?

Thank you for reminding me that I am really not old, as that is something that would never even occur to me to do. I was starting to feel old till I read this!

There are some photographers who will camp a place for hours waiting for the right picture. Or they will camp a place for hours to get the right light and come back the next day with their stuff. I can see nature photographers camping a place for hours waiting for the birds or whatever.

[Midorikawa]

I'm not a photographer, that's probably why it took so long.

I'm a photographer, and I've spent hours setting up a shot before. I try not to, as my style of shooting is a quick shot from the hip so to speak, but it can't be helped in some cases.

The infrared shots on my site took 20-30 minutes to setup and get just right, sometimes longer. This of course, doesn't count the 3-4 hours I spend in photoshop getting them to look just right (the raw image off the camera looks VERY different from the final product.)

[XCashier]

Those are lovely pictures. I especially like those pretty little blue eggs.

[Magpie]

You should watch the "diaries" at the end of each Planet Earth episode on DVD. They waited YEARS for some of their shots . Hours? That's nothing.