There’s an old adage that says, “It’s better to be lucky than good”. Certainly, this is frequently the case when pursuing photography. Sometimes, by chance, we just happen to be somewhere when something interesting is happening or just the right light is striking just the right subject. The only requirement on our part is to be observant enough to notice these unique encounters. I experienced just such a chance encounter recently. I was in Lubec, which is a small coastal village in the “downeast” Maine area where I live. A bald eagle was perched peacefully out on the end of a breakwater that juts into the channel that runs between Lubec and Campobello Island which lies in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. I walked slowly out on the breakwater snapping pictures of the posing eagle as I went. The sun was going down and I was rapidly losing my light. The above picture is the last one I took just before he flew away. He’s striking a perfect pose against a great background. The world around us still makes for the best studio.