This weekend was a wonderful experience and a real eye opener with my photography. On Saturday I spent most of the day photographing birds in the area. I was at Dale Maffitt Reservoir and Park for about 2 hours. There were around 3000 Canada Geese, 50 Trumpeter Swan, and a large number of Common Goldeneye and Mallards. I set my camera on manual and started taking photos. I wanted to get photos of the Swans in flight so I waited, and I waited, and I waited. Finally they started to leave in pairs. The good thing about Swans is that it takes them a long time to get in the air so it gave me time to get in position to get good photos. I changed the settings on the camera for every group that took off to see how it changed the picture. I was very pleased with the results. Below are some of the photos I manage to get of the Swans in flight.

I am beginning to feel a little limited with my current gear.  I know I have not used them to their full potential but I feel like I could get much sharper pictures with better lenses. I also need to buy a bigger memory card because I filled up my 16GB in no time.

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