No focus

Primarily for No-focus fans (yes, there are some), I post this shot of a

pair of very brightly-coloured yellow warblers jumping through the bushes

at the bottom of our garden a couple of days ago.



I had had a comparatively short lens on the camera and I reached quickly

into the drawer for the long zoom I use regularly for birds. Without

thinking much, I grabbed my old 80-200mm Tokina lens. It is a nice enough

lens, but not autofocus, and -- again, I wasn't thinking -- it was *not*

focussed on what I wanted. Sigh. By the time I got the regular lens on the

camera, the birds were gone.



Had they been in this picture, they would have been in the lowest quarter

of the picture, about half-way across, near the pink of the picnic table in

my neighbor's yard.