Happening Now...

I have been trying to capture pictures of the birds that I see up at the winery as of late.  They are fast little things that hop just as soon as I try to take a picture of them and my camera, as good as it is as a point and shoot, is very slow and can't focus and take a picture quite quickly enough.  Then, to make matters worse, the zoom level is all relative and although I can see the bird in the viewfinder, it is still quite small.  Imagine the bird being the size of your the internet browser icon at the bottom of the screen.  Rather dainty really.

Then I have to go into my photo editor and crop the picture to the size of the bird and "blow" it up so that it is somewhat grainy.  Then you have yourself a picture of the birds that I was trying to take a picture of.

 Now sure, these pictures aren't all that bad to look at and you can see the lovely colors and details of the bird crisply.  But then look at the fact that they are also a bit on the choppy side.  They aren't as in focus as you thought they were on the viewfinder and the picture that they were cropped from are radically larger than the finished version we are looking at here.

It all can be fixed by me looking into a way to procure a better version of a camera that will be able to adequately take a fast, focusable and zoomable picture so that I can capture the flight of one of the orioles that we have around.  These orioles are beautiful and fleeting.  You have to be quick on the draw and also be ready when they show their beady little eyes.  One of these days...