Dolphins - Day 3

I had a camera all day today :0) My trainer says I'm doing great, and he was barely even looking at my photos today 'cause "I don't really need any teaching" LOL Most likely he will sign off on my training tomorrow and I'll be considered a "Primary" photographer for DIP. That means I will be trained in all photo areas that I can do since I am not SCUBA certified so I can't do the underwater photos for our SeaVenture program.

The weather changed today. Awesome, dry, cool in the morning/evening weather has left us for a while again. We were out shooting and hand to go in because it was not only raining but there was lightening and thunder too close to the park so all water areas were closed for about 20 minutes. We then headed back into the water to finish the session, while it was still raining. Being int he water while it's raining is actually kind of fun. My only issue today was that the batteries in my external flash died so I had to keep adjusting my settings to get the photos bright enough. My trainer looked at me and said, "don't worry about lighting, I know your focus/color/lighting is good, we'll just look at your horizon and framing for this session". But I surprised him and was able to get the settings right and to hold still enough that they weren't blurry LOL

A really cool thing today was that in one of the DIPs that I shot was a familiar dolphin. Copper. Her mother was from San Diego and named Penny. Penny was a SUPER sweet and BEAUTIFUL dolphin. San Diego was very sad when Discovery Cove got to have her 11 years ago when they opened. Other dolphins that are at Discovery Cove that used to be in San Diego, or who's mother came from there, are: CJ, Diego, and Jenny.

It's supposed to rain again tomorrow, so we'll see how long or how many rain delays we get. But for now, that's all :0)