Photo Of The Day: May 28, 2008

Shooting photos for a book is an incredibly intense experience. The publisher provides an extensive list of things they would like covered for the book, and you then have to augment that with your own ideas, and then fit that into a fixed shooting schedule. You're always chasing some combination of the next location, the perfect light, or the clock. The shoot days run from 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM and are followed by two hours of processing each night. So occasionally you forget that you even took a particular shot until you're reviewing your work later. That's what happened when I was going through my Everglades shots over the weekend and found this one of an egret in flight in light that couldn't have been lit better at any angle. For more shots of the Everglades, look for a new gallery coming soon on Paul Scharff Photography.com.