Three hungry little robins

Robins made a nest in the eaves of our front porch, well within my

reach. I spent some time photographing the babies with my wide-angle

macro lens (lens about 3" from the birds) while mom & dad waited

impatiently in a nearby tree with worms in their beaks. Is this too

tight a crop? I couldn't look through the viewfinder while taking

this, so I just held the camera up and guessed at its orientation, and

I accidentally rotated it quite a bit. This is the largest crop that

I could get in this orientation without any visible black corners.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing. I'm not sure.

Thanks for the honest feedback, David. It's nice to finally get a comment other than, "Good job," especially from somebody with your expertise.

I see what you're saying. I'm not sure if it's a result of how I was forced to hold the camera (in an outstretched arm pointing back over my head, perhaps causing camera shake), or if the autofocus wasn't quite spot on. I know this particular lens isn't terribly sharp, but it's not nearly bad enough to cause what you see in this image, especially at this resolution.