Frustration

You know what? It doesn't matter how close you can get to them, dolphins are hard to photograph...

Here's how it works: Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) cruise through the Indian River in a variety of manners, but most often in a casual partial loop -- the head and dorsal fin will appear partly out of the water in a curved motion as if they were cresting the top of a ferris wheel. But they don't follow any particular pattern -- no specific or regular timing, no regular distance between surfacings, and often not even in a straight path. The actual time that they remain visible may just barely exceed a second.

This makes it hard to have the camera aimed at the precise location to get a compelling photograph. I'm still trying...