Photography outtakes - humor

[Thunderhead]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297287478

[shreedave]

Oops, something went wrong here, worst thing, it flew away after this photograph (its supposed to be a common species in India, but I have never seen it after this). Still Research Grade here.

[ursaw]

I just wanted to see the gills :(

[egordon88]

Fly away! Fly away!!

[shreedave]

Here’s the artistic shadow of a Common Jay (top right corner), observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263723938, (I haven’t uploaded this picture there, I got a better one which is still pretty bad, check it out)…

[mkanimallover]

These moments happen

I can’t help that he moved so quickly! It’s his own fault I cut off his head! And I don’t think he overly cares :)

She was too quick for me

[mkanimallover]

And there is a very interesting insect on the flower that could be the main focus!

[egordon88]

Yes, a sun moth https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293610410

[mkanimallover]

That’s interesting! But I thought that for something to be research grade, it had to be down to the species or subspecies. It seems this is at the genus.

[egordon88]

Anything subfamily and below can become RG if you check the box

[mkanimallover]

Oh, okay, that makes sense, I guess. Thanks!

[felix-nicholls]

Bird? What bird?

[spiderthumbs]

humming bird in action, they are really hard to get good pictures of

[Tangent_Spinner]

I am once again thwarted by my Android phone when attempting to take a picture of a bee lol! At least the flowers were pretty

[Thunderhead]

Using video and then finding good frames for screenshots really helps…

[mkanimallover]

Haha, that’s what I used to do to make sure I didn’t miss the bird I was trying to catch on camera. It made for some very interesting moments, and there were a few times I was actually glad I videoed for the video :)

[grampianshiker]

[sedgequeen]

I really like that one, whatever it is. (So many of these are great! Such a diversity of ways a shot can be bad. Impressive, too, what terrible photos can be identified, in some cases.)

[shreedave]

Some sort of kingfisher?

[grampianshiker]

To be fair, I did actually get a photo before it took off: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/304208453 . But I quite liked the effect here!

And yes, a fascinating number of ways things can go wrong.

@shreedave

Some sort of kingfisher?

Yes, in the kingfisher family - though I kind of forget that because they’re rarely as obviously blue as that one looks. And I’m not used to kingfishers singing/laughing!