Bird Bath

Crooked, you say?  Ha!  It's a flipping Cardinal in my backyard while I was sitting on my patio!  Do you think I expected, or even ever dreamed possible, a cardinal would come within eye shot of me? I hadn't even seen a cardinal since Easter Sunday and that was through the window.

I had my tripod set up with its legs stuck through and jammed tightly among the legs of two patio chairs.  I was nestled in my "bird blind," with a chair to my right which blocked the tripod.  The camera was set at a height just above that chair, fixed upon one of the hummingbird feeders.

Then the cardinal appeared at the red dish.  It was the only one of the four water/feed sites in my yard the camera could not see from where it was set.  I scrambled.  First, I tried to unscrew the bolt to raise the height of the tripod so that I could swing it around.  It worked, but I couldn't get my body twisted enough to look through the viewfinder.

So I quickly made sure everything was tight then I picked the whole damn thing up, stood and pulled the camera in front of my face.  I pointed it at the frolicking fellow and got off a couple of snapshots. I wasn't going to miss this freaking bird! 

So what you see is exactly what came out of my camera.  A no fuss, no muss photograph...although by gaining two strained quadriceps, some might not qualify it as such.  I, however, call them worth the weird blip!