Hunting Rabbits

On this morning walk with my wife I brought my camera (R5) with my 100-500, Mode set to Fv, Auto Focus set for Subject Animals and Eye Detection enabled.

F-stop: f/7.1
Exposure: Auto
ISO: Auto
Focal Length: 500

I was hoping to catch some of the wild bunnies that whose abode is in the bramble, or perhaps some aviary action...both I haven't had much luck with. By the time we got on location there were plenty of other walkers and bike riders, both of which tend to intimidate.

The trail is a there and back again with the terminus being a river. Nothing all the furry and feather friends were safely tucked in far from the maddening crowd.

As we started to head back my wife told me there is a speed boat on the river, bless her, her hearing is much better than mine. I turned around in time to see as the water craft passed a water skier release the tow rope and slowly sank.

We observed for a couple minutes out of idle curiosity. Soon the boat came back and after a couple minutes they were up, up and away!

I thought to myself. "Self. You have a camera in your hand. What 'cha, gonna do with it?"

As I raised the camera to my eye, my thumb flipped the power lever and I was ready for immediate action! Wait...wait...why isn't it...oh, still in Manual Focus. A slide of the switch from AF to MF aim squeeze and