Last Saturday my parents dragged me a little unwillingly to an 8 hour long unschooling seminar! I admit I got a few things from it, one of them was that you have to have 10,000 hours of practice in any field that you want to make into a career. For me that field is photography. I decided that I would keep track of all of the time I spend photographing until I reach 10,000 hours and as I do that, I would blog about it. At the end of each post to my blog from now on I will put up how many hours I have spent photographing and how many hours I have left. The morning after the seminar my parents and I got up at 6:00 AM and went to Point Reyes to see the tule elk. We saw 6 deer, 4 hawks, 2 rabbits, tons of quail, some ravens, lots of other birds, and then finally, we saw some elk! There was two males resting very close to the road, I didn't even have to get out of the car. They had very large antlers and they were very peaceful mostly just grooming themselves, I was so excited to see them so close to us and have such a good photography opportunity. It was an insanely foggy day out there, so most of the pictures are misty, but it gives them a nice gentle quality. After watching the two males for a while, we continued up the road were we saw a few females on the side of a hill. We stopped and hiked up to where they had been. When we got to the top of the hill, we saw a small group of 4 females and 2 juveniles who quickly ran away from us so we went back to the car and drove on. After a little ways, I saw that the small group was running down the hill to cross the road, we watched them, we went a little further, and then all of a sudden about 30 feet in front of us, this huge heard of elk ran across the road! After they were across, they settled in a field next to the road, but it was so foggy that you couldn't see any of them, then the fog would clear for a little bit and you could see all of them! This was such an amazing experience to be able to see them and then they would just disappear! After watching the elk graze for a while we moved on and walked around the Pierce Point Ranch buildings then took a short hike and then went home! All in all it was an amazing first day of my 10,000 hour project!
hours finished: 3
hours to go: 9,997
