a crappy picture

This shot has some technical blemishes beginning with poor focus, but there are some interesting elements.

I spotted the gull as it was flying directly toward me and thought I would try to photograph him from underneath as he flew over me, but he veered to the left of me at the last second. I was handholding what is the effective equivalent of a 630 mm lens and it's hard to keep something as small as a bird in the field of view with that tight zoom. So, this was an occasion when I thought it was better to be lucky than good.

F5.6 at 1/1600 of a second, ISO 180

Monte