Today, while I was out, I encountered this hawk. I’ve seen a lot of them around here, gliding high above. While hunting perhaps. I never got a good shot of one, until now. In fact, I got over 100 “good shots.” This was the best one. After sitting still for about 5 minutes, it flew…

Even with only 12 megapixels, the resolution of my camera is so great that I took this shot at 1/320th’s of a second while lying on the ground. Here it is uncropped vs. cropped:   The Image Stabilization of the camera plus the relatively fast shutter speed allows me to use a low ISO and…