Look behind you (or below)

The Stone. Yellowstone NP, 2013

While everyone had their $10,000, 600mm, monster lenses (with teleconverter) focused on a brushy slope that gave only the briefest glimpse of a grizzly feeding on a bison carcass, I found a different subject when I looked straight down from the bridge. Sometimes the best subject isn’t necessarily the most obvious one. I much prefer this image to the blurry one I have of part of a grizzly snout sticking out from behind a distant tree.

So, instead of focusing entirely on the the main–most exciting–photographic subject, take a deep breathe, turn around, and look behind you (or below, as the case may be).