Old thread here: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/chat/f/2542/t/22684.aspx
Because the original thread has, fittingly enough, 'gone bad', it's time for a new 'Bad pics' thread. Here, we celebrate the very worst of our wildlife photography. The subject matter is always brilliant, but the photos are very much not. If it's out of focus, chopped in half, frighteningly under- or over-exposed or terrible in some other way, it belongs here :)
Here's my first (first of many, no doubt) contribution to the new thread, a Goldcrest taken at Barnes yesterday. You need only minor incompetence to take a blurry photo, and the same to take a really under-exposed photo, but to do both in one go requires a special level of cackhandedness.
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I agree that it does look like an Owl GL, was my first thought too!
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I saw a headless Jay today !
and the next shot was no better !
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I almost got a shot of this pair working as a team and making off with a 12Kg bag of peanuts.!! Oh well, maybe next time.!!
Paul
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Do not jest to soon P(Sf)A ... still smarting here as I remember that day they polished off nearly 200 grms of live mealies after I inadvertantly left shed door open!!
Don't see too many of this particular Penguin species
I reckon you are all being too harsh on yourselves. Any pic, however cruel, is better than no pic. Mind you, some of those are true classics ...
Had about ten seconds to capture a goldfinch yesterday and all my bloody camera could capture was this... damn that autofocus ... it is there somewhere, honest...
More bad pics lol but you should still be able to tell what it is !
Conjoined twin Dunnocks
Took this yesterday, only my second sighting of a Goldcrest :(
Jim
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lol Jim, I'd call that a pretty good pic of a Goldcrest as they are so difficult to photograph, never keeping still for a second !!! Aren't they beautiful little birds ? :)