Reformed location snob.

Yesterday I went to a county park in my neighborhood, mostly just to walk around, but of course I took a camera with me. In this park is an eagles nest sitting on a creek, this creek is my favorite place to paddle. Ive been shooting at these eagles for 5 years or so with mediocre results, sometimes not even reaching the lofty goal of mediocrity staying at the level of "that's a great picture of tail feathers". On this particular day, however, everything lined up and I got the best eagle picture I've ever shot. This picture wasn't shot from my kayak where i had to paddle a distance, fight current, (actually tidal flow) which can be moving as fast as 3 miles per hour and all sorts of things that factor into stability issues. No, I shot this on a dock with a cup of coffee sitting on the rail. The challenge was pulling the picture off and nothing else. I started thinking, I have skipped shooting in places just because i thought it was to easy, here in the nations oldest we have the alligator farm, it's an amazing place and it's also a rookery, birds all over the place, but i've never wanted to go there with a camera because of the absolute lack of suffering involved. The same thinking has influenced the way I  look at this park. To  make this image i drove a quarter mile, walked 150 yards on Paved trailes (the park is wheel chair acesable) and stood on the dock sipping coffee and staring at the tree where the eagles nest is. The tree next to the eagle tree has blue heron nests in it, so i was looking at them when the adult eagle came in with a food delivery for the ugly babies.  At the range that happened there wasn't a picture there. 15 minutes later the adult launched and flew right past me. Ok so here is my point, this nature stuff or photography in general can happen anywhere, and me, well i'm now a reformed location snob, didn't even take 12 steps, just one eagle, flying at high speed.
I have a post tommorow as well, so expect to see that. The eagle photo is below.
Thanks for reading. Lets go shoot!