I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with making images in the dark. Nighttime shooting requires full concentration and not a little bit of creativity, usually while navigating some random outdoor setting. In this case, shooting winter waterfowl hunting in Pennsylvania, it involved hiking through marshy swamps in the cold pre-dawn hours to set out decoys and wait for the dawn to break and—hopefully—bring in the ducks.
This image was shot as b-roll during an assignment for onX Hunt photographing / writing about goose hunting in the Northeast, and I’m really pleased to see it make the cover of an Orvis catalog. Just goes to show that frozen fingers are usually worth the trouble!