Just for Fun - Post your nearly photos

Gee, I've never taken a bad photo before so I don't have anything to contribute. Yeah, right!!! lol

Like Mike I tend to delete anything I don't like/are rubbish. However, just for you Christina, I took this shot today........ (another yeah right !!). Honest Guv, he moved.........

http://i39.tinypic.com/105dssn.jpg

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Doo-doo here, doo-doo there, doo-doo is everywhere.....

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I have posted mine on other sites...would appear that a fair number of us birders have one of those. :D

What I should have last summer was a huge overhead blast from an osprey. Already focused but instead of clicking, stepped back to avoid the doo-doo. Should have clicked and stepped back at the same time. It was an awesome sight like a big ball of water bursting overhead. Pretty sure it would have sold a million copies. :) Grrrrr

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Originally Posted by Bobobird

What I should have last summer was a huge overhead blast from an osprey. Already focused but instead of clicking, stepped back to avoid the doo-doo. Should have clicked and stepped back at the same time. It was an awesome sight like a big ball of water bursting overhead. Pretty sure it would have sold a million copies. :) Grrrrr

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You've got to take one for the team in situations like that.

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I've never taken a bad photo before so I don't have anything to contribute.

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I wish... I could say that,but as a bird lover with just one lens 70-200, I have plenty of them(bad photos)

Just for fun - Disaster waiting to happen
http://i39.tinypic.com/2lmt9uw.jpg



Wrong frame, wrong shutter speed etc..

http://i40.tinypic.com/2mpbvjb.jpg

Timing and composition! Could've been! Almost!

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...arly-4copy.jpg

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...arly-3copy.jpg

Obviously I have far, too many of these :)

Cataloging and cleaning up files I ran across this one. For me the two optimum shots of a bald eagle are with the bird coming towards you with the talons fully extended just before grabbing a fish and then just after snatching it from the water with the splash in the frame. I've only gotten one or two of the splash variety. This was an almost from back in 2009 which was my second season shooting them, or birds at all for that matter. I was SO mad at myself :mad:

http://www.northernfocusphotography....30890560-4.jpg

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Originally Posted by NorthernFocus

...I was SO mad at myself :mad:

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By that I assume not anymore? Good for you. I still get mad at myself sometimes. But really mad when people who may also be there do things to spoil everything. Kid are fine they don't know better. Adults are really annoying with their shouting and running around that spooks everything within sight.

http://i40.tinypic.com/6opqis.jpg

My cell-phone was much more interested in focusing on the windshield than the subjects at hand, in the few seconds before this lot discovered the lower of the two fences. One of them had actually tried to jump the high fence at right!

http://kronometric.org/phot/manor/fa...dOfSixDeer.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/nbd535.jpg

This one was from this past Sunday. Whites are blown out from over exposure and the jerk in front zoomed into view at the last second. Learning my new 120mm-400mm is a challenge in and of itself. Learning the new lens and trying to learn birds in flight just isn't smart.

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Originally Posted by Christina S

Timing and composition! Could've been! Almost!

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...arly-4copy.jpg

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...arly-3copy.jpg[/URL]

Obviously I have far, too many of these :)

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I like the second one one - it is pin sharp and the fact you're missing the horse's nose and the jockey's bum give it movement.....or is that just me ??

Thanks Kaye,

The missing jockey's bottom doesn't bother me but the missing the horses nose makes it a definite almost for me.

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Originally Posted by kaye leggett

I like the second one one - it is pin sharp and the fact you're missing the horse's nose and the jockey's bum give it movement.....or is that just me ??

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This kingfisher had to take off just at that moment..................

http://i44.tinypic.com/spezqx.jpg

I took my sister and her son on a boat trip. I had the 55-200mm on my V1 shooting birds. I left it on when we got on the boat to return. It gave me a great opportunity to miss a great dolphin shot when one showed up near the boat.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...4&d=1390596069

I did everything right except have the correct lens on the camera.

Ouch, just missing a dolphin! A wonderful nearly there image....

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Originally Posted by Saorsa

I took my sister and her son on a boat trip. I had the 55-200mm on my V1 shooting birds. I left it on when we got on the boat to return. It gave me a great opportunity to miss a great dolphin shot when one showed up near the boat.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...4&d=1390596069

I did everything right except have the correct lens on the camera.

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Panning gone wild!
http://i41.tinypic.com/23h98ip.jpg

Just when I went to snap the photo, she decides to lick her butt!

http://i41.tinypic.com/b97qsk.jpg

Then she turned away -

http://i43.tinypic.com/992scj.jpg

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Originally Posted by Shadowman

Panning gone wild!
http://i41.tinypic.com/23h98ip.jpg

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You might consider passing this one along to Sharon as it appears to have her hands all over it already.