Der Versuch, Mamas Liebling Bosco zu fotografieren.🙈

Er ist übrigens ein Hund😁
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Of course, the reason that it was staying in one spot was that it was grooming, so I had quite a few shots that looked...less impressive.

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#Fotofails: I had a lot of trouble getting the camera to focus on this Black Phoebe and not the tree behind it, but that wasn't the problem in this shot. I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.

Trying to get a close-up view of the mushroom from below the gills.

Oh, well.

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Sometimes it's hard to get a good view of the wildlife.

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Yeah, rolling shutters and #butterflies don't always mix well. #fotofails

I spotted a bunch of starlings darting around through the wild barley in the open space near an odd street intersection.

Problem: The barley is taller than the starlings. Most of my photos look kind of like this.

#fotofails #birds #nature #barley

And another bird, possibly a goldfinch, that took off as soon as I snapped the shutter.

#birds #blurry #fotofails

A #birb caught in the act of #NOPE!

(I did actually get a clearer photo of it, but only enough to identify it. It took off as soon as I tried to take a second photo.)

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I haven't been able to get out anywhere that seagulls land or perch in a while (except, now that I think about it, the grocery store a few weeks ago where I saw two gulls fighting over some trash in the parking lot), so I've only seen the gulls flying overhead, where they're hard to capture on camera.

I finally did! Sort of.

(Hey, at least you can tell it's a gull.)

*sigh*

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#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue #butterfly that actually paused long enough for me to take a picture...with its wings open, even! But my camera kept insisting on focusing on the leaves behind it. 🙄

The results of developing 20 year old Camera film

Yashica TL Electro X
35mm film from Seattle FilmWorks

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When auto-focus goes bad...

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What was the auto focus thinking

Canon SL2/200D - Sigma 100-300mm Super Macro APO DG - ISO400

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I found this while looking for old pictures to submit to iNaturalist. I don't think there's *quite* enough detail on the seagull here to identify the species!

The ship, incidentally, is the Queen Mary, launched in the 1930s as a transatlantic liner. It's been permanently docked in Long Beach, California for several decades and is now run as a hotel.

#FotoFails #Seagull #ship #QueenMary #California

Oops! What happened

Canon SL2/200D - Sigma 100-300 Super Macro APG DG - ISO 400

#photo #photography #insects #FotoFails

From a short drive I took today

Canon SL2/200D - Canon 55-250 Lens - ISO 100

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Finally got a picture of one of the sparrows nesting in the parking structure!

Oh. Well. So much for that idea.

One of these days....

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Darn you, autofocus!!!!

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I was trying to take a picture of some crows as they took wing from a palm tree, but I'd accidentally set my camera to "creative shot" instead of burst mode. (Someone thought it was a good idea to use a stack of rectangles for the "creative shot" icon.)

Instead of a set of continuous frames, I got a group of auto-cropped, auto-filtered versions of one frame, most of which didn't even have the birds in them at all.

But I actually kind of like this one.

#FotoFails #photos #crows #Birds