Sometimes serendipity happens. I was photographing the Dolomite Mountains in northern Italy with a beautiful church in the foreground when a hang glider came out of nowhere and drifted into the composition. This is the second time this has happened -- the first time was in Namibia where a hang glider drifted in front of a huge, orange sand dune. For this shot, I had enough time to raise the shutter to 1/2000th of a second to make sure I froze the moment. I wanted to make sure even the thin cables were tack sharp. The reason why the hang glider, the church, and the distant mountains are all sharp even though my aperture was f/4.0 is because of the distance from the camera to these objects. All of the elements were beyond optical infinity. This is the focal point in a lens when everything is sharp from that point to infinity. I used a 24-105mm lens for this shot, and it was set to 96mm.
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