A big moose on a big hill, his foreleg bent to the task, its eyes looking straight ahead makes a perfect symbol of determination. I composed the image so that the moose is plodding diagonally from the lower left hand corner towards the upper right hand corner. He has a long way to go, and he moves his great bulk slowly but steadily. The massed branches that dot the landscape reach out to greet his antlers as they move forward. To make this image, I cut my ten megapixel resolution in half, transforming my 12x zoom lens into a 17x zoom lens, which provided a focal length of nearly 600mm. I needed every bit of that reach to make the moose this large in the frame.