Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
Don’t let your deal go down; don’t let your skills get rusty. A person practices to develop a skill. A person practices to maintain the skill lest it becomes rusty.
I didn’t do enough photography this past winter and early spring to keep my skills sharp. I paid the price recently when I spotted a hawk close enough to photograph. As I was shooting, I slowly tried to get closer. The bird wouldn’t stand for me getting too close and took off. I wasn’t ready. Because I was out of practice I forgot to set the most important setting for such a situation. I didn’t use a fast-enough shutter speed to capture a sharp image of a moving hawk. I took well-focused pictures before and after the bird’s flight but not when it was flying. It flew only twenty yards to where I think it had its lunch.
