Not quite what I was after, but it resulted in what I thought was an interesting kinda-sorta-leaning-toward-Impressionism result.

Obviously when I snared this one I was playing around with trying to freeze a seagull in mid-flight (which I've done before), but to do so by tracking them; snapping them so that they are sharp and the background has motion blur. In this case, double blur from me moving the camera, and the ocean waves in the background breaking on the beach in the morning light.

I think that doing it with a 40 D with its limited (by modern standards) number of focal points... well, maybe you can get away with it if it's a race car. But let's be honest, if it happens on a subject as small as a seagull it's going to be as much if not more luck as skill. Nor am I at all certain that the f/4 limitation of the 24/105 makes it the right lens for the job.

Nonetheless, one of the purposes of PADing is to ask "what if", even if the results are different to what we might have initially wanted.

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