My birthday is next week, and I found an awesome deal on a zoom lens for my camera. I found it at Target for only $99. It is a Canon EF 75-300mm zoom lens. Today I had my first chance to see how well it works. We were outside, and my daughter pointed out a hummingbird on the tree. I ran in to change lenses, and came back out to snap some pictures. I noticed that there were two hummingbirds at first, but that when I came back outside with my longer lens, there was only one. I waited patiently, and even sat down for a bit to wait and see if the mommy came back.
It was well worth the wait. Here is the baby waiting for mommy to come back.
Baby is still waiting.
I am so jazzed about my new lens. I did have to manually focus because there were so many branches that the camera couldn’t figure out what I wanted it to focus on. I just manually focused and then stayed in the same spot to take all of the pictures. The baby stayed in the same place the whole time.
I have high hopes for things that I will be able to capture now.


Wow! What fantastic images you have captured! Beautiful! Well done!