Awesome story Jug!!! Sounds like a great quick hunt. I'm also an amateur writer (done write ups for several different magazines) and I can relate. I prefer to shoot too, but also carry a sticker... just in case
When you experience things with the intention of reliving the experience in words/pictures for other people - you do tend to experience them with a dichotomy - a heightened awareness but also a detached distractedness - that is very difficult to explain. On a lot of hunts I find myself deep in my own feelings/experience of the hunt while simultaneously aware-of/distracted-by how it will translate for others reading about it later.
One thing a lot of folks don't know about photogs... there is a skill (and for a select few a talent) to photography: composition, light, framing, depth, etc... but a lot of it boils down to the law of large numbers. Just like a lot of dogs get on a lot of hogs more because they spend so much time in the woods than because they are 'wonder dogs', a lot of fantastic photographs are captured because the photog took hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures in a shoot. You take that many shots, you're bound to have at least a few shots that are "money". Video is the same way... it can take sifting through *hours* of raw footage to get a few minutes of video worth editing.
Thanks for sharing... and I'm with Scott... let's see the dogs!
