Peggy,

The reason why many of my photos are turn out good or beautiful as others wrote, because I photographing in a different way as most of the photographers.
I'm not just go out hiking with a camera hanging on my neck and take a picture of those things what get front of me accidentaly, or I'm not going to places where you can take pictures of bird from boardwalk run trought on marsh or even forest. I planning and prepare most of my photography, using photoblinds, baiting/lure the animals, or just take lot of time to observing them to find out when and where is the best place to taking picture.
For example, In Ohio there is a metropark called North Chagrine Reservation. Next to the North Chagrine Nature Center there is a pond full of wood duck. They say this is the best place in America to photographing wood duck. What I saying, this the place where the most easiest to take picture of wood ducks, but the worst place to photoraphing them. Yes there is lot of them but they are behave as domestic ducks, and you can't choose your back ground, you can't go into the water, and in most cases there is people in the background, who walking the other side of the pond.
My swan photos are different because they are was taken from the water, where I got in, at a time when I can't even go to the metroparks because the parks are still closed! How you can take realy good pictures if not allowed to get there in a time you wanna go, if you can't get to the spot you should have to go?
If I can't do photography in my way, I can't get a photo what I want, so it is not worth to do other way.
Actually the goverment push down and kill the talents, not let them to do what they should to do. Interestingly they make no laws against to wearing pants half way down on public places. Showing my underwear on a street is OK, wearing a camo pant all the way up, put me in a truble!
Those people, who make the laws, regulations have no idea what is takes to get a really good nature and wildlife photos. They are think to get a disposable camera, and go to the zoo is more than enough for the american wildlife photographers. This is what they got be happy with it! And if the photographers don't like this and complain, the goverment gonna take away even this opportunity and gonna expel all the cameras from the zoos! Having fun, having a good time, do a hobby, is not allowed in this country. Or least in North-East Ohio.