Eagles -by Darren Corsen

On a cold winters day, on an ice covered pond, while doing some ice fishing I saw an
eagle. This was a beautiful site. I thought about this for the next couple of days,
how this bird is a symbol of the greatest country in the world.

I decided to try to get some pictures up close of this great bird. The next weekend
I took   my point and shoot camera to the pond to get some photos.  I waited and
waited for him to come and get a pickerel that we had caught and could not save to
put back. Just as I turned my back he started for the fish. I ran for the camera and
almost fell but I grabbed it and got some not so good shots. This is when I decided
to get serious about photography and buy a DSLR. You do not need a DSLR to shoot
eagles or anything else but it is a lot easier when you can use different lens and
settings.

The next winter I was ready to shoot some eagle photos. My friend Eric and I were
out doing some water fall shots with ice and were on our way home when we spotted
two eagles flying overhead. They were flying over a lake and there were people ice
fishing. We parked the jeep and I headed across the lake to where the eagle had
landed in a big pine tree. What a perfect shot that would make. The American Eagle
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