Focusing dilemma

This was a tough one.

A dead bird found in our backyard in the hands of my little girl.

A young child is first hand experience of death, literally with her own hands.

I did not want to focus, particularly on this bird's eyes. I didn't want this picture to be about the death of this bird. But at the same time I did not want to focus on my little girl's hands. Somehow by doing that, her very hands seemed to be directly responsible for this bird's death. Si, I had to pick a plane to focus, somewhere between the eyes of the bird and her hands. Only with manual focusing you can pick and choose a target like that.

Pentax K-7

Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50/1.4

1/8000 @ f/1.4

-0.3 ev

ISO 200

RAW