Always have the camera to hand

I'd been shooting birds (digitally!) again today and had packed up to do some work. The long lens was still attached when I heard a helicopter approaching. The air ambulance was coming in to land at the rugby club. I dashed outside and tried to get it in the frame and in focus. Somehow I'd switched the autofocus off and failed. But what lands has to take off again.

When I heard the engines running again I had a second go. One shot out of four was half decent, and I'm happy with the lens's performance. It's just a photo of a helicopter, but good practice handholding the lens. An aeronautical photographer would have used as lower shutter speed to blur the blades more, but I had the camera set to freeze flighty birds.


Some of the bird photos were okay too. Quite addictive this bird photography lark - in an achieving an aim sort of way.

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