I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.

#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.

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#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue butterfly that actually paused long enough for me …

#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. 🙄

#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue #butterfly that actually paused long enough for me ...

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@SolanumGF Yeah. Sometimes it’s like…can I have manual focus back, PLEASE?

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I don’t think there’s *quite* enough detail on the seagull here to identify the species!

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

Queen Mary (ship) and Blurry Seagull.

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I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to …

I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to watch boats and seagulls. It was super windy, and the seagulls were hovering in the updraft…and riding the wind *sideways*!

That, and the usual wheeling around, made them difficult to catch on camera.

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This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong …

This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it’s not blurry enough to look intentional.

I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven’t finished the roll yet, so I won’t know for a while whether that one came out better.

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Another of my #fotofails from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park…

Another of my #fotofails from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I’m terrible at holding binoculars steady, so I’ll take zoomed photos to see what’s in the distance. I think these were antelope or something, but the camera autofocused on the cables holding a balloon between the deck I was standing on and the open area below. For comparison, the giraffes at a similar distance are a lot clearer.

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