The large (read: enormous) orange tabby finagled his way into some outdoor time yesterday morning and while he was happily munching grass, he suddenly spotted this robin and took off after it. Once the robin was safely in the tree and Reno was again occupied with eating his fill of the lawn, I managed to capture a few numerous images of the robin. This is the one I liked the best because it cut out a lot of the background and had a certain starkness to it thanks to the silhouetting. One of the first things I learned about photography was this: it takes a lot of shots to get one worthwhile photograph. My high school photography teacher always said that if he got two or three decent shots on an entire roll (this was back when the dinosaurs had just died out  and film was still in fashion) then he was satisfied. In college, we were required to shoot ten rolls of film (roughly 360 exposures) for a project that asked for only seven printed images. The secret to good photography? Keep shooting. Again and again and again.  And then maybe one more time, just for good measure.

I had a few other images that I felt were decent too. The runners up for today’s title of “Photo of the Day”:

What’s that you say? You’d like to see more? Well, I’m flattered. I’ll be posting all (alright, most) of the images I take each day on my flickr account. You’re welcome to browse.