Get Low For Big Impact

Change your camera angle to free your wildlife shots from cluttered, distracting backgrounds

Text And Photography By Arthur Morris

Published March 8, 2011
Updated June 30, 2016

It was a stifling late August morning. I lay in wet mud on the South Flats of the East Pond at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York. A thousand no-see-ums chewed on the exposed skin on the back of my hands.

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