Now that I have the Nikkor 200-500 FX lens that weighs in over 5 lbs, I'm interested in how others carry these lenses when on the camera. I've seen carry straps that go over the shoulder and attach to the tripod bolt hole of the shoe.

Other ideas for keeping the weight off the camera mount and keeping camera and lens ready for quick deployment?

The caption is a ruba'i, which you may know from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rubaiyat being the plural, in Persian, for a ruba'i, a special form of quatrain. I use these for captions.

I live beyond the reach of number, street and GPS.
Around me water, marsh, and forest wildness.
I have not won life’s lottery—success,
just a Pilgrim’s progress to the Slough of Happiness. *

*In John Bunyan’s once famous allegory Pilgrim’s Progress, the hero has to cross the Slough of Despond.

First illustration in Necessary Illusions