Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: finches

Or two.

Thirty or so feet away.... So close , but the focus still isn't quite right. This is a shot the V1/Minolta combination clearly could master if I'd locked in the focus--but manually "getting the focus right" using the V1's electronic viewfinder would be hit-and-miss even if I was better at the task. At this distance I can't see the edges of things well enough to judge sharpness. Compare this photo , shot using the same camera but with a native lens. Distance is quite similar; both photos are cropped. This is the argument against using the Minolta lens. Mayhap another photographer could do better, but she'd still be cursing the EVF. I'll keep playing.

Continuing with my Nikon 1 experiments. (Some experiments are more successful than others.)

Continuing with my Nikon 1 experiments. (Some experiments are more successful than others.)

Generally speaking, our simple feeders are our most popular feeders....

A pair of house finches at the front yard's sunflower feeder. In color because I like this version; it almost looks like I greyed out the right-side bird and the feeder. And that male's so vivid . ========== I'm not a serious birder. Joan's much more serious about birding than I am, and denies that she's serious. For me it's sufficient that we have finches in the yard; our feeders certainly accomplish that. I generally recognize the birds that appear here with any frequency, but in the woods I'm usually watching the scenery, not looking for birds. Usually. Several of my Flickr contacts are serious birders, and I really appreciate their work. I'm talking about Les Piccolo , Gary M , Dan Kashkendam Maingan , Mark Miller , and Tom Clifton , among others. All those links are to exceptional pix. I don't invest enough time in birding to get that good. Worth mentioning: Four of those five photographers first caught my attention because we have other interests in common. Then I discovered their birds. (Life is good.) Nonetheless, I enjoy photographing birds. Thus, above all else, last May's birding (sub)project. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 55 Title of " roll :" Birds Other photos taken on 5/3/2012: The Daily Flower Census (61 pix) included several of a robin and a cardinal and quite a few of this cat . Our Columbines were starting to open, too. A dramatic storm showed up in the evening; I posted a vid to Facebook.