We had a totally cool visitor the other day. With animal photos I'm not generally up to speed with messing around with Manual Settings yet. I can't control their actions the way I can with a flower or a person you know! Gotta move fast to get the photo or I'll miss it.

So for this I set it up on Portrait hoping the background would blur into unobtrusiveness. Even if it didn't I liked the graphic feel of the repetitive rocks so I felt that it would be a win-win situation.



I was able to get a tad closer before he moved out of range. On this one I really like the play of colors, the blue of the eye against the brillance of his beak contrasting with the white of the feathers and the rocks definitely became a great background.