For a good bit of time, Northern Harriers were an obsession of mine, a source of frustration. I couldn’t get a good photo and desperately wanted one. Would see them often, always ended up with flawed pictures. The bird would be facing the wrong way or have a shadow on its face from the wings.
Pursuing harriers with the camera made me “feel like Ahab—if …
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