As luck would have it ...😀

It does not mean bad luck if a cat crosses the road - it just means the cat is going somewhere! 😂

That quote kind of summarizes my feelings on the subject of luck and bad lick!

In wildlife photography though, sometimes I have had some instances where I can not really attribute the photo I got to my skills and preparation alone. I guess those happened due to the timing and not due to my intentions of timing them. So - I guess it is luck that played a part!

My luckiest one and one of my favorites is this shot of a kingfisher with it's meal in a perfect toss...

My entry for #SMap 155

I was actually composing a shot. I knew a kingfisher was in the area and it liked to sit on a stump of wood in a marshy area. The area had some nice yellow wild flowers. So, I wanted to compose a shot with the yellow flowers in a bokeh background. I was just done focusing on the stump and was going to click a shot to check the overall effect and exposure etc. I usually take couple of quick shots for this but lo and behold - as I pressed the shutter, the kingfisher appeared out of nowhere! I kept the finger on the shutter and my D500 rattled on - taking 10 frames per second. I got this amazing shot of the kingfisher tossing it's meal with it poised perfectly in the middle of it's open beak! That I guess counts as a lucky shot!

On another occasion, I saw a kingfisher from far and clicked it without realizing it had something it it's mouth. When I cropped and processed the picture, it turned out it had a crab in the mouth !!

Due to cropping a lot and enlarging, it is not a great quality photo but it was a lucky break indeed to see this kingfisher with a crab in it's mouth.

I guess I have a lot of lucky shots but a funny one - which was totally unintentional was this following shot of a Kingfisher (Shot of a shit 😂😂😂)

The kingfisher was sitting quietly on a rock and just as I focused and clicked, it let fly a rapid fire butt-load of crap !

Lucky shit - oops, sorry, SHOT indeed !😀

Hope you all are lucky enough to have some similar luck in your photography. If not, seeing these lucky shots will surely provide some inspiration and bring you some luck I think 😀

Do you agree ?

Please feel free to comment and let me know your views. Also - please let me know if you liked the clicks.

A big thank you for support

Thanks to c/hive-106444 (Feathered friends community) for providing this wonderful opportunity to present my experience and photographs. Thanks to @barbara-orenya and @melinda010100 for all the support and encouragement to this community. Special thanks to @nelinoeva also for the wonderful contest and Author of the week initiatives.

Thanks to HIVE for this wonderful platform. Thanks also to @adalger and @dna.org for encouraging me by recognizing some of my posts as worthy of Densifying nature project.
Further, thanks to Amazing nature community for welcoming me and showing me their love on some of my posts.

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Note: All images and collages in this blog are created by me, based on photos clicked by me personally and/or free vector images from Pixabay. Any other sources, if used, are indicated as image credits below the picture.
Quotes used, if not credited, are either from unknown authors or are proverbial old sayings.

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