Waiting for the Photo

When dealing with portraits, weddings, seniors… the photographer arrives, setups and starts taking the photos. But often, we don't have such a control, we are all setup, ready and we have to wait, wait and wait… until the right moment. The question is what's the right moment? Everybody defines it differently. For me, it's a gut instinct, sometimes it feels right, but mostly it feels almost right. That's when I start. What about you? Do you wait or do you chase after the photo?

In fact, there are two more photographers, one on each side of these three photographers, but too far away and with the wrong arrangement. These photographers are waiting for something to happen. While most of the snowy owls are sleeping, there is always at least one that's mostly awake and keeps guard. So the photographers are waiting for the snowy owls to turn their heads toward them or even better to do something, which is unlikely to happen. They mostly start hunting for voles, mice, lemmings… at dusk and will hunt from then until they catch their “dinner and breakfast”…

The best we can expect during the day is that most of the snowy owls turn their heads in our direction.