I use a point-and-shoot camera, so it automatically focuses for me. My efforts to try to get something in focus and out of focus at the same time didn’t work. That’s why I use a camera that already knows what it is doing.

Instead, here are two photos taken of the exact same spot: the top of the utility pole in our front yard (about a month apart, time-wise). The first photo, the Crested Caracara, was taken with a my old camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 with 8x optical zoom. The second photo, the Harris Hawk, was taken with my new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS25 with 20x optical zoom.

Crested Caracara

Harris Hawk

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

A group of vultures is called a wake (when they are feeding), kettle (while in flight), or when resting in trees: committee, volt, venue.

If I’m real still, maybe they won’t notice me.

A vulture venue

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow