Boston POTN Meet

Mike and Don it was great to finally meet you guys.

I'll give you guys a heads up when I'm able to get up that way again to use the free pass.

donlavange wrote in post #7749076
Crap! What does that make me? LOL

On other meets, we can always make one up. Don't forget "Waterfire" this Summer in Providence!

I suggested the huge outdoor Antique shows in Brimfield last year, but nobody had any interest. Not sure why, because there are so many picturesque displays and people about.

I would love to finally get to waterfire...been trying for years. you guys had great weather for the zoo yesterday

Ok in hindsight we should have planned on meeting somewhere at a certain time while we were there as I didn't see anyone at any point that I thought might have been a fellow POTN member. Then again I had a somewhat sleepless night the night before and was pretty out of it

That said, we got there at about 11:30 and since none of us had been there before we walked the outer perimeter then worked our way through the inner one with very little backtracking. We ended up leaving at about 4pm.

I never had so much trouble taking pics of zoo animals. It seemed like either the light or the animal(s) were in the perfectly wrong place the whole entire time. Or like in the in the case of the tigers just weren't doing anything.

I ended up taking about 300 pics and trashed about 2/3rds of them to end up with about 100 of them. If anyone is interested in seeing them they are here.

Oh man, that sucks that we didn't bump into each other. I got there around one and I believe Mike said he got there about the same time. We ended up leaving pretty close to closing, and there is much more movement near the end of the day with the cats. The two tigers were up and about and even did a spot of rough housing for the few of the patrons still there. The lions were a bit active pacing around doing laps of their enclosure, same with the chimps. Did you happen to see the monkey(didn't notice the species[good eye Mike]) eating the bird it somehow managed to catch?

Next time we should exchange cell numbers or do the meet at _______ at _______ in the future, seems a waste to be there and not say hey.

That is too bad we didn't catch up. Chris and I were together for a few hours, both lugging the 300s, I am surprised we weren't seen! LOL

Chris I knew you were going to bring up the monkey with the bird. LOL That was different. Oh and I hope you enjoy all those "open mouth" shots of the big cats... Every time I turned around they did something, it was almost comical by the end. Oh, I did get a great few shots of those poles around the trees with the two tigers behind them playing on their hind legs. And don't forget the "drop-kick" mandrill... actually it was more of a knee to mom's face.

I haven't gone threw them all yet, but I'll post a link soon.

mike

They were on their hind legs!

See you got something heaps better than the yawning.

I went to see a friend to check up on another friend(she's really sick ) and didn't wind up getting home till about one in the morning. The one I went to see, she happens to be a bartender so you know......

How in the world couldn't I mention the monkey, it was just way to bizarre.

I was actually starting to feel a bit guilty about getting all the open yap shots, I'll have to be more vocal about it next time(air horn, that'll get them up and about).

I've gotta remember to bring that 20lbs. of burger we were talking about next time.

mumbles wrote in post #7750039
I'm down for some city stuff when folks try to organize another meet. I've bowed out of that role

Brendon ,

Sorry to hear about your mom.

You were such a great guide you always found parking spots for both cars.
we would be up for almost anything.

20DNewbie wrote in post #7755856
They were on their hind legs!

See you got something heaps better than the yawning.

No, you missed how I worded it... LOL I got a great shot of the pole around the tree with the tigers playing behind it. I need to check my micro-adjustment for that lens... seems it missed focus on the pole. LOL

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Wow I'm sad that we didn't stay around and go back to the tigers but one of us ended up with a pretty decent sunburn

I usually go back to areas of interest several times to see what is going on but the crew I was with didn't seem very interested in doing that.

This is the best "Big Cat" shot that I got.

naryab wrote in post #7757481
No, you missed how I worded it... LOL I got a great shot of the pole around the tree with the tigers playing behind it. I need to check my micro-adjustment for that lens... seems it missed focus on the pole. LOL

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I have about 4 or 5 of these great shots of the pole... but once again, the pole is out of focus on them all... what a bummer.

mike

Mike I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to take that MkIII off your hands, piss poor performance if you ask me.

Without further ado, the snacking monkey.

Okay, here are a few from the zoo. I obviously favored the "big cats".

Southwick's Zoo Gallery

Funhouse69, great shots. I think the one of the mother and baby mandrill is a winner. Nice variety, as opposed to me! Lol Thanks for sharing. By the way, you weren't taking shots of the guinea hen on top of the food shack were you? I was feeding the baby and I saw someone shooting with a 70-200 variety.

Wow, good stuff Mike!

We've got pretty much the same pics, well yours are a bit tighter but by the time I was done cropping.... I can't wait to get back when they put out the rest of the animals.

naryab wrote in post #7760188
Okay, here are a few from the zoo. I obviously favored the "big cats".

Southwick's Zoo Gallery

Funhouse69, great shots. I think the one of the mother and baby mandrill is a winner. Nice variety, as opposed to me! Lol Thanks for sharing. By the way, you weren't taking shots of the guinea hen on top of the food shack were you? I was feeding the baby and I saw someone shooting with a 70-200 variety.

Mike - No that wasn't me... I was the guy walking around with a gray hoodie and a black Fox Hat. I was shooting with my 40D and my 70-300 f4-5.6 IS as my 100-400L didn't come in until late that day

My mom is obsessed with birds, she was fascinated (as was I) with the Albino Peacock unfortunately it never moved the whole entire time we were there. At the same time she's heard about Black Swans but never saw one in real life before.

These are my mom's favorite shots

That was the shot of the mandrill and baby I was saying is awesome... congrats!

Has anyone hear from or seen Jen / mai_lin lately?

I'm signed up for the workshop with Manny next Saturday and sent her payment on Monday for me and a friend and never got confirmation that she got it... I've e-mailed her through here as well as the e-mail address she sent out to everyone that is singed up and haven't heard back. What's up with that

I don't have any other way to contact her.