Digital cameras are making it simpler and quicker to view pictures. This fact has made these do-it-all cameras more attractive for hunters to take a camera in the duck blind, treestand or upland bird land.

Tommy Thompson is a career photographer whose pictures have appeared in outdoor magazines for over three decades. He's always willing to share is experience with other outdoorsmen to make their memories more vivid and memorable. He says newcomers make two main mistakes. They don't get close enough to their subject; and second, they're not aware of clutter or light conditions that can cause distractions.

"With any photograph, you have a subject or maybe two but generally it's your buddy, with the fish he caught, or it's the kids with their fish," he says. "People don't think about isolating those subjects. They'll have them in a mass of clutter, with fishing rods sticking out the back of their heads, the sun will be up over the top of their heads and they'll have baseball caps on, casting shadows down on their face, and they'll all have on dark glasses."

"I have a couple of rules. Number one is I either tip the cap back or take it off. I don't let people wear dark glasses in the photographs. I look very carefully to make sure there are no fishing rods, radio antennas, guns and storage sticking up from behind people's heads or trees or telephone poles or whatever. That just goes a long way to make a really nice, neat photograph."