In and out of focus After my full moon experiments, we went on a little vacation camping in the mountains.  We were near some fields of wildflowers, so I thought I would try taking some close-ups using the macro mode.  Unfortunately, I haven’t learned enough about that, so strands of grass were messing up the focus. But I was really pleased that I managed to capture this bee, and I used some of the techniques from the photography book when I edited the photo.  I cropped it really tight, letting the viewer’s mind fill in the cropped sides of the thistle.  (I normally try to avoid the subject looking cut off!) Then Mr. AQ suggested I use manual focus.  I would never be able to focus on movement fast enough!  But he had studied the manual book, which I was too busy taking pictures to have had much time to read, and he explained the cool aids this camera has.  I could leave it in aut...