I mentioned in part 1 that it's important to take some time before the meet to make guiding decisions about the general shape of the coverage. As a documentary photographer, I always feel
            
             
                
        
    
                    
                "Can you tell a story without moving?"  That's the essence of a photography exercise I first went through about 13 years ago, during one of the only two photography classes I've ever taken.
            
             
                
        
    
                    
                Sometimes gear matters.  My photographic journey started off with a point-and-shoot camera, about 16 years ago, and has since been powered predominantly by some combination of DSLRs and (more recently) mirrorless cameras.   As
            
             
                
        
    
                    
                First and foremost, I'm a pole vaulter who trains with decathletes.  So when they switch to training for a different event, I switch to my camera, to try to capture a bit of
            
             
                
        
    
                    
                In the first day-two post, we got the tree down to a height short enough that we could fell the remainder all at once.  All that was left was to make it happen.