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Actually there really wasn't anything wrong with the bird, itself. It was just the fact that I was having a difficult time trying to get it in focus. Sometimes my camera's auto-focus wants to focus on the background and it takes me a few seconds to get the shot where I want it. I can actually adjust what specific area of an image I want the camera to automatically focus on. Or I can just set it to manual and focus it myself. But of course, while I'm doing something like that, a subject like big foot could have already gotten bored and just walked away. Birds and butterflies and other insects are sometimes hard to capture, and often get away before I can get a good shot.

Digital Photography Tip: "Don't Throw Them Away"

As we take picture after picture with our digital cameras, we tend to accumulate a plethora of junk and useless pictures. I've seen a lot of my friends look at the pictures and just delete them right away, on the spot, so they won't take up valuable space on their memory cards. I say keep them all. I mean, unless the lens cap was on or the image was totally useless. But  there is no total definition to the word "useless". I mean, as the saying goes, "One man's junk, is another man's treasure."
But even if a photograph comes out a little burry or off center, or even a picture of your thumb in front of the lens, there might be some things can be done to them to bring them out and use them for something else, or crop them and use certain parts of the image. So just throw it in the scrap pile with all the rest of them, and who knows, you might come up with an idea later. After all, memory is getting cheaper and cheaper, and CD's and DVD's can hold a lot of pictures. 
In any case, the image, above, was actually totally out of focus, and by some standards, useless. But I wanted to use it for today's posting to show that there might be some fun things that can be done with them.

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