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Nature Photography 
Now are you lying on the sand to take this shot? I can’t figure out how you got the feet at eye level.
Aye! I was laying flat on the sand to get that shot. I had my camera out on a 2″ ridge of sand in front of me, with the tripod splayed out flat (to give the camera stability, but no height.) The sand was soggy, and this was the early part of winter, so it was freezing cold, too. But, sometimes that’s what it takes to get the shot! 🙂
It also takes quite a lot of patience to get a low perspective shot like that. I had to walk past the killdeer to get out to the sandbar, so it saw me and knew I was there. I tried to skirt as far around the bird as I could, but even wearing camo, well, they still see you. It took about 30 minutes of laying on ice-cold soggy sand before the killdeer decided it was comfortable with me, at which point it strutted right on past, mere feet from my lens!
(The sequence was actually uploaded backwards…the first shots are 100% crops…which progress down to about 25% crops, which were actually the first few shots taken as soon as I laid down and set up.)