Trip to the Zoo

[Mrselfdestruct]

I brought my girlfreind to the Zoo today, and here are my favorite pics. No editing, except resizing, all strait from the camera. Most the pictures have fence blurs in them, I had to shoot thru to many fences. So Im only posting ones without the fence, few exceptions though.

C&C please. I particularly like the giraffe the most... And the one with the two Orangutans, mother and son/daughter, is real nice, the one problem is there was a rope jungle gym thing in the way, and unfortunately, this Zoo was not Camera-freindly. Everything had something in the way i.e. Fence, ropes, cage bars, people, kids... everything imaginable.

One of my favorites
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4756/img0642my3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Aligator:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9295/img0678qy2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Some Kangoroos, the pic seems a little dark:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5548/img0701yg3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Gazelle:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4637/img0704sw6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

He was pretending I couldn't see him...
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4233/img0753zw5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

This is the Orangutan picture I like if only the rope wasnt in the way!
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5138/img0759ua7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Daddy Orangutan... eating. I think he's related to Chubacca:
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6196/img0773mw2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The rest are links, don't want to overload this page with long loading times :D

Great shots of Lovebirds, love these guys!
http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0634oj0.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8437/img0631aq7.jpg

Turtle:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5679/img0685qt8.jpg

Bobcat:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4747/img0712ie2.jpg

Grey Fox:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4581/img0714lh3.jpg

Hippos:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6241/img0855lc2.jpg

Zebra:
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/1989/img0873pq3.jpg

Ducks:
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2185/img0930jl6.jpg

Lamurs:
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/333/img0908el3.jpg

Crown Crane:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8895/img0883pv0.jpg

Forgot their name:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2328/img0726do3.jpg

Chimp:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3231/img0732po9.jpg

And that's it, C&C please

[habu90]

I like that Orangutan shot but like you said it is too bad that the rope was there. Cool capture nonetheless.

[Attic]

Haha a quick look at the iguana I thought he was holding out his hand for you to shake it but then realised it was a branch. :-)

[Mrselfdestruct]

Thanks for your reply. I live right near the Zoo and Im applying for a job there. Hopefully with some time I can get some real great pictures.

[tigrinus]

the bobcat is actually a caracal and the unknown one is greater kudu, most of the picture lack contrast and saturation, also try to get closer to the animals

[Mrselfdestruct]

Yes your right, I have bobcat pictures as well, but I posted the wrong one. Thats as close as it gets to these animals without buying a new lens. This was a zoo and I was pretty far away from them all.

[silvex]

Haha a quick look at the iguana I thought he was holding out his hand for you to shake it but then realised it was a branch. :-)

ditto

[Mrselfdestruct]

Haha a quick look at the iguana I thought he was holding out his hand for you to shake it but then realised it was a branch. :-)


Lol yeah, pretty stealthy lizard. I like that shot because the branch actually looks like a part of its body, helps show it's survival techniques. When I got up towards it, he stopped moving completely and sat 100% still. Not a single movement. The whole while some lizard 4 feet away was in the process of "raping" a female iguana. Mating season... a lot of the exibits where closed off, I'm guessing because of this. But I managed to still get a few. That Gazelle picture was shot by me standing on my tippy-toes and shooting over a large black thing that was over the fence stopping people from seeing.