Looking at My Options

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The two photos this week hold significance to me not because they are great quality or have a special meaning to something in my life other than my participation in an online discussion about whether opportunities make life easier or harder today.  I have always been in favor of having many options because more options tends to relieve stress whereas, not seeing or having too few options  increases stress and makes life harder.   While I am  suppporting the "more oppportunities" viewpoint in the discussion,  I am struggling with "too many opportunities" in the task of setting up a new  camera.  Both photos for this week are similar to many I have taken previously.  What makes them special for me is that they are the first wildlife photos that I have taken with my new z8. 

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I have spent more time lately trying to figure out setup menus for the shooting banks and studying about the camera focus options than I'd like to say.  I enjoy shooting;  not setting up the camera menus.  The fact that I was able to set the camera to get the photos I wanted ended my week on a high note.  Even as I was taking the photo of the blue heron in flight, I was rehearsing an alternate focus tracking option that would have been better for this shot.  To me, that means that I am now at the place where I can see my opportunities (options) for using the camera less as a source of bewilderment and more as a source of motivation to keep learning and experimenting.