Ring-Billed Gull

Ring-Billed Gull [58/366], a photo by timsackton on Flickr.

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Not a very inspired day today photographically. Tried a few things that didn't come out all that well. I just happened to spot this gull while taking some other photos (none of which ended up worth keeping) and grabbed a quick shot that I was reasonably happy with.

I must say this gull was pretty fearless - I had my 50 mm on my camera so I was amazed I could get close enough to get this shot before it flew off. In retrospect, I probably should have dialed the aperture to something more like f/4.0 to get the entire gull in sharp focus, but I only had one shot at this so this will have to do. It is nice practice to have only one or two shots at a subject, instead of being able to shoot 100 photos and then pick the best at the computer.