Today I took Brandon to the zoo, it’s been a while and since the weather was nice I was very much looking forward to the walk.  He asked me to bring the Canon Rebel SL2 so he could take pictures too, he really seems to enjoy it and man I can’t say how wonderful it is to share photography as a hobby!  It started around 1c in the morning gradually cooling as the day went by and even though Brandon was dressed pretty well he complained about being cold so we left without seeing everything.  That’s ok we have a membership so we can go anytime.

I had a lot of fun taking pictures, most were done with the Canon 70-200 F2.8L IS II USM lens though the ones with of the cheetahs I also had the Canon 2x extender on it.  I was stupid and shot Av mode so not all my pictures are in focus because my shutter speed was too low, oh well I’m even lower than an amateur so live and learn.

These are the pictures that Brandon took and I think they turned out great!  His pictures may be a bit nosier as I set the SL2 to Tv and a shutter speed of 1/250th thankfully most of the animals were not moving fast so he didn’t need anything faster.  Megan said he’s going to be better than me, no doubt as I have no artistic talent but my little guy does and if he enjoys taking photos I’m going to do my best to encourage him. 🙂

We came home after lunch and hung around the house the rest of the day.  I vacuumed and did some cleaning, cleaned some of my airsoft stuff too so it’s ready to go for next Friday if I play. 🙂