For about a month, I have been trying to get a good shot of a woodpecker going at one of the palms overlooking our apartment building’s parking lot. Yesterday, Cali came running from the bedroom, where she had been blissfully sleeping in sunlight, into my office. She climbed onto the desk to look out the window. To see what? I hadn’t opened up the thing, so sound penetration was minimal.
She stared out at that wily woodpecker, and I marveled at her ears, because I could see the pecking but not hear it. I pulled out Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, opened the camera app, set to 10x zoom, and shot the Featured Image through the glass (which could have been cleaner).
Vitals: f/3.4, ISO 32, 1/320 sec, (synthetic) 230mm (digital and optical zoom); 9:33 a.m. PST. Composed as captured. Referring to the timestamp, San Diego Comic-Con Open Registration resumed thirty-three minutes earlier. Last month, an unnamed glitch derailed ticket sales. I made no effort and won’t attend once again.
FYI: This post’s title is an experiment. Will search engines send people looking for porn to my site, because of pecker? Let’s find out.