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A golden eagle swooped down from behind the barn, scared me out of my shoes, stole a weasel skin and the board it was nailed to as I was curing it, and flew to a nearby tree. I was an eleven year old city boy living on a farm for the summer, and this was my first encounter with ornithology. I won’t say it changed my life (I probably would have been a bird-watcher anyway), but it sure had a major impact. Even at age eleven I had been an avid photographer for three years, and ran for my Brownie Target 620 camera. By now the eagle was perched on a telephone pole more than a hundred yards away; and my older friend, then fourteen, had his twelve-gauge shotgun aimed at the bird. Fortunately for the eagle, my friend missed by a mile. All I really got was a picture of sky with a blurry speck flying away. But the bug had bitten. Bird photography had to be in my future.
Milton Heiberg
Excerpted from The Essentials of Nature Photography
