I'll post this one because it was a miracle I managed to get it at all. During the summer I returned to my term-time city of Plymouth to see the Class 1 Powerboat Championships, and had a 4.1MP camera with a non-existent zoom, and a decent pair of binoculars. Well I tried an experiment to get a far out shot of the boats, by holding a single binocular cup up in front of the camera lens, relying on guess work for the focus and a tiny LCD screen in full sunlight (the viewfinder wouldn't give a true idea of what I was aiming at). Anyway, this was the result at about 2 miles out.
And this was probably the most 'artistic' shot I took that weekend.