A couple of shots of Great Crested Grebes taking the offspring out for a ride on Lago di Lugano.

three’s a crowd!

Faster, dad!

Both taken with the 50-200 SWD lens on Olympus E-5. And cropped a bit.

Another day, another batch of lake bird photos. Again I used the 50-200mm lens, again with the teleconverter. This time I had little trouble with AF in C-Mode. Today's photo is a close-up of a coot. Trying to optimise the exposure, I used center weighted averaging centered on the head. I also tried using spot metering with AE Lock, which also gave usable results.