Yesterday from Forth Worth (56K warning)

[OversighT]

My wife and I took a trip to Fort Worth this weekend to visit the zoo and see Josh Gracin at Billy Bob's. The weather was very overcast during the day and I thought my photos wouldn't be impressive, but I think they came out pretty nice. Here's a sampling of the shots I took (the order of the shots represents the order taken throughout the day). Feedback is always appreciated.


#1 Non-traditional shot of a flamingo.


#2 Gorilla...showing off.


#3 This orangutan was throwing water up at the visitors.


#4 A lazy 'roo.


#5 A bald eagle (I performed a little PS work to blur and overlay the background to get rid of the netting)


#6 It was a lazy day all around the zoo...we caught this big guy during a nap.


#7 The angles on the white tigers were really bad where they were hanging out and this was on the only salvagable shot I pulled off.


#8 Our friend, the meerkat. There must have been a memo handed out to the animals yesterday about not being too active...I didn't get one shot of a meerkat standing up.


#9 A hippopotomus, like an iceberg, has 90% of it's bulk under the water.


#10 Josh Gracin put on a great show...too bad I only brought my 50mm lens with me. I thought that I would need an ultra-fast lens, but turns out the best shot I got was this one (ISO 800, 1/100th @ f/3.2) so I could have brought my 28-135.



T.

[LoungeLizard]

Those are good. Guess you got your 28-135 back. How's it working out for you?

[OversighT]

Originally Posted by LoungeLizard

Those are good. Guess you got your 28-135 back. How's it working out for you?

Thanks Jesus. Yeah I got my lens back and it's now functioning as it should. I haven't really given it a workout yet...that will probably happen at the next TM&T group shoot. I tried using it for a bit with the flamingos yesterday, but got better photos with the 75-300 because of the extra length.


T.