I made a reference to this in my trip report, posted recently.  If you are going to photograph on a canoe trip, you either have to be going solo or you have to have a tandem partner who is patient and willing to aid and assist with the photography.  It takes time and sometimes extreme patience to set up for a good shot.  Especially with wildlife, or with small things.  Good composition and good exposure don't come with just snapping and shooting (except when, on occasion, you happen to get very lucky--and on occasion we all do.)

I have been blessed to have such a patient partner to work with.  Our trips didn't start out to be focused around photography.  On our first trip in 1971 I had a small Kodak Instamatic and two rolls of film (12 exposures each).  Now, when I look at that album and see what I MISSED, I am aghast!  

So I began to "need" better camera and better film and more time, better light, SLR 35mm, digital SLR, tripod, telephoto lens, etc., etc.  But if you don't fish. . . .

Photos, for me, are where it's at.  And yours (I guess I should say "hers") have been very enjoyable for all of us here.  Thanks again.