I chaperoned the zoology class's field trip to the Columbus Zoo last Monday.  It was also the maiden voyage of the Olympus E-500 I requisitioned from my dad.  It's very hard to shoot with a telephoto and not look a creeper, especially when the subject is small children, so I ended up holding the camera around my navel and sneakily pressing the shutter a lot of the time, but it made for some interesting photos.

The massive swarms of children made me very glad I do not teach K-8.

Our kids were the oldest school-age visitors by far.

But they are still little kids at heart!

But seeing the excitement of little kids is always refreshing.

Nobody understands emo bear...

Pete gets mauled by a tiger...albeit, a bronze one.