We always have a squirrel around. There are lots of trees on the hill in back of our yard, a big one in our yard itself, many in the neighbors’ yards. We put out a fair amount of food every day for the birds. Trees + food = a squirrel.
Sometimes we see two squirrels. Especially in the spring, chasing each other all over… (insert that deep bass “French-sounding” “uh-Huhn-HUUUHN!” sound here that means “You know that we’re talking about sex now, right?” – is there a word for that sound/phrase/thing?)
Earlier this week there were THREE squirrels out there. It might be the cookies that we’ve been throwing out for them in addition to the bird seed.
They’re all fat and fuzzy, no doubt about it! I grabbed my camera and started shooting…
Only to find out just now that, as fuzzy as the squirrels were, my pictures were even more fuzzy. As in, “badly out of focus.”
This is not an artistic choice, but rather a reminder that, no matter how many tens or even hundreds of thousands of pictures I’ve taken with that camera over the last 20+ years, I still need to make sure I check that the autofocus is engaged if I’ve been shooting pictures of the moon the previous night and had it on manual focus.
The problem is obvious. User error.
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