Of course

You caught me; yes, the giraffe was in the Nairobi Giraffe center.

A few more from my Kenya Safari, to follow up on the thread in the Photo Analysis section

Giraffe


Zebra


Secretary Bird


Sunset 1/800, F/7.1, ISO 400, 55mm


Kenya Acacia Tree, 1/1600, F/8, ISO 1600, 86mm color adjusted in PSE

To answer MT Shooter -- I can't explain why the exposure was not overexposed at these settings, except that I may be misremembering the brightness of the day, and at this point I was using a polarizing filter.
I had the gear about 3 months before travelling and used it qute a bit, BUT, I am new to the zoom lens and was not sensitive to the need to use short exposures when zoomed out.
The comment by mderman may be on point as well. In the first shots, I was not using the single point focus target, and the surrounding grasses might have distracted the focus engine.
I had no wildlife experience before, and to be honest, this was a vacation trip, not 100% focus on photography. That said, I'm sure I could have been better prepared, but I find that until you do the real thing, you will never be able to replicate every situation in advance. So now I know a lot more!
I will post some more (better) pix, in Gallery

Thanks, everyone. So I'm getting that the consensus is that camera shake is the culprit, not focus. Would I have been better off using shutter speed of 1/focal length, suggesting 1/200 for the longest zoom on my lens. Should I have just pushed up ISO as needed, or opened up aperture, losing some depth of field?

Just returned from Safari in Kenya, and I got a lot of great pix. But some from my first day wre out of focus and I can't figure out why.
Gear is a Nikon D3100 with their Nikkor 55-200 lens with VR on. I used P mode and autofocus AF Atea Mode.
Light was bright, outdoors, with a Polarizing filter. A number of them were not satisfactory. See "4 lions". The second, "1 lion" was taken 5 minutes later, but a lot closer (zoom @ 135mm).
On day 2 I removed the filter, pushed up the ISO and changed mode to A so I fould force better depth of field, and I changed to AF Single Point (See "good lion")
The last, "bird" is included only to prove that I do know how to focus the camera!
Any ideas?

4 lions, F5.6, 1/80, ISO 320, 200mm


1 lion, F5.0, 1/80, ISO 360, 135mm


good lion, F16, 1/100, ISO 800, 200mm


Bird, F11, 1/100, ISO 800, 190mm

Maybe I wasn't clear. Each image, obviously, can only be stored in one place. Not all images in the same folder. So therefore folders are a very limited organizing structure. Tags are much more flexible.

I've been using Elements for years and I think some of these posts are missing an important point. PSE Organizer has a very robust and flexible tagging system that should be used instead of also trying to set up Windows folders to store the images. When you import photos you can allow PSE to put them in a date-labelled folder, or any other named folder, and then do all the organizing from within PSE. Mark images with people, places, events, vacations, projects or whatever else. As many tags as you like. And you never have to care which folder the images are actually stored in. The fact that you can only store images in one folder, even one with a complex hierarchy, makes this approach very limiting.