Tuesday, August 19, 2008

San Diego Zoo, 08/11/2008


On the last full day that my brother was in town, we spent 7 hours at the SD Zoo. We saw pretty much everything. Except the pandas.

I used my 55-250mm lens exclusively that day. What did I learn? That I need to get a polarizing filter for that lens. Because the coolest animals are behind glass, and reflections suck.

Flamingo 03

Leopard

Spiderweb

Tiger eye

Preening duck

Bird 03

Bonobo 04

Alpaca 02

Elephant

Snake 02

Galapagos Tortoise

It was a really fun day, and we closed it out with some tacos at South Beach and then fell asleep early, since it had been a string of late nights for us and my brother's flight left pretty early the next morning.

5 comments:

  1. Dang, great Zoo photos. Very nice, all of them. Especially dig the antique chimpanzee shot (or is that a bonobo?)

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  2. It's a bonobo/pygmy chimp. One of my favorite animals at the zoo.

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  3. I guess I could have looked at the labels where you've got the whole menagerie listed ...

    (The tiger and the bird with the "noir" shadows are great too.)

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  4. Wow... Those pics are so awesome. :)

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  5. love the set as well. keep it up lady!

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