One more...and I promise to stop kicking this dead horse. LOL.

This also was a bright day, aperture priority at f/2.8 hopefully to get background blur, which it did. ...ISO was 200. The shutter speed shot up to 1/8000 causing this unusable dark image. I just don't get it. You would think that the camera would compensate for the wide aperture in the bright conditions with raising the shutter speed just enough to make an accurate exposure. But it seems to go beyond that and make the image too dark with too high of a shutter speed.