Running Amok at the Zoo

[bfjr]

Santa Ana Zoo that is (small,very) but close to me and along with my trusty FZ20+TCON14B and plenty of tips and inspiration from DGrinners, like Troy, Jeff, Harry, Steve and et al :thumb.

Now if you don't care for em no Dgrinners were at fault it's all on me :D
Now if you do likem then please give my forum compadres 2:thumbs and a dbl snap :lol3

So here goes:
Mr. Eagle to you :D

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833708-M.jpg

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833954-M.jpg

this is not a crop of above image. It is digital ZOOOOMMMM :D

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20834133-M.jpg

Lets move on now to the Monkeys:
My best shot here I think is also my worst for hiding zoo effects :cry but love the expression

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20834175-M.jpg

Got lucky here hiding zoo stuff, lucky too cause they gave some looks :D Kept yelling at them, "Yo Monkey, give me something baby to shoot, not just your BUTTS" :lol3

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833913-M.jpg

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833649-M.jpg

They got an aviary with frogs, turtles, birds, etc. Can't really say I saw much, bad time of day :cry so I had to be happy with just the lilly and no frog :D

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833821-M.jpg

We end our short Zoo trip with another bird and the knowledge I need to go back and try to improve :lol3 :thumb

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All shots FZ20+Tcon14b, shutter pirority -2/3 to - 1 1/3 ev (really bad light, YUCK) around 2pm !! :huh

[jwear]

you did gooood guy very good :thumb :clap I want an eagle :cry really great shots BEn did you get an EB did ya :scratch If not I heading for the zoo

[Harryb]

Ok Ben thats quite enough from you. :nono I can't speak for everyone but I'm sick of your lousy cheap prosumer camera getting shots that are just as good and many times better than those of us with expensive DSLRs and lenses. I mean its just not fair. If it happens again I'm calling your wife and their won't be any D2HS for you. I'm serious now. :rambo

[windoze]

kudos to you for getting to the zoo and posting good catches! 2pm is a tough time to go to a zoo... i stay away till 4:00 usually......

nice eagle!!! keep it up and get back their soon

troy

Santa Ana Zoo that is (small,very) but close to me and along with my trusty FZ20+TCON14B and plenty of tips and inspiration from DGrinners, like Troy, Jeff, Harry, Steve and et al :thumb.

Now if you don't care for em no Dgrinners were at fault it's all on me :D
Now if you do likem then please give my forum compadres 2:thumbs and a dbl snap :lol3

So here goes:
Mr. Eagle to you :D


All shots FZ20+Tcon14b, shutter pirority -2/3 to - 1 1/3 ev (really bad light, YUCK) around 2pm !! :huh

[Khaos]

Nice shot!:thumb :thumb

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833649-M.jpg

[jwear]

Ok Ben thats quite enough from you. :nono I can't speak for everyone but I'm sick of your lousy cheap prosumer camera getting shots that are just as good and many times better than those of us with expensive DSLRs and lenses. I mean its just not fair. If it happens again I'm calling your wife and their won't be any D2HS for you. I'm serious now.:rambo i KNOW WHERE HE LIVES Harry I can put a stop to this :rambo:cry

[bfjr]

you did gooood guy very good :thumb :clap I want an eagle :cry really great shots BEn did you get an EB did ya :scratch If not I heading for the zoo

Thank you Jeff very much :thumb
I'll share this eagle with ya, just down the street (so to speak :D) from us
Santa Ana Zoo
off 55 frwy just north of Mcfadden exit.
If you want I'll get the exact address Monday, when I head back to my shop in Santa Ana.
Hope you have great weekend :thumb

[bfjr]

Ok Ben thats quite enough from you. :nono I can't speak for everyone but I'm sick of your lousy cheap prosumer camera getting shots that are just as good and many times better than those of us with expensive DSLRs and lenses. I mean its just not fair. If it happens again I'm calling your wife and their won't be any D2HS for you. I'm serious now. :rambo
Hi ya Harry :thumb
Oh you don't want to that :nono
1st it won't work :rofl
2nd you want me to have that D2Hs it'll level the playing field :cool (do I sound like J. Nickelson :huh )
3rd you have only yourself to blame posting/sharing all those killer images here and your gallery :clap :lynnma, I just wanna play on the "A" team :thumb

[bfjr]

kudos to you for getting to the zoo and posting good catches! 2pm is a tough time to go to a zoo... i stay away till 4:00 usually......

nice eagle!!! keep it up and get back their soon

troy

Thanks Troy :thumb
glad you dropped by, your zoo images are a major reason I hunted this little zoo down :thumb
Yeah, and what is it with zoos open at 10am close at 6pm, Geeezzz is that the same for you? :wxwax
I'll try a later start next time :thumb

[Kirwin]

Great day at the zoo! I wouldn't have realized you captured the closeup eagle with digital zoom. :thumb Thanks for sharin'.

[bfjr]

Nice shot!:thumb :thumb

Hi Ya Khaos
Glad you like and visited :thumb

[bfjr]

i KNOW WHERE HE LIVES Harry I can put a stop to this :rambo:cry Best come well healed :rambo :lol3
Remember I got two crazy parrots and a couple of them there "Omen" type Rotties :D
So I got Land and Air covered :lol4 :lol4

What is "EB" anyway ? Is it birdie pooop ? :dunno :D

[leebase]

Ok Ben thats quite enough from you. :nono I can't speak for everyone but I'm sick of your lousy cheap prosumer camera getting shots that are just as good and many times better than those of us with expensive DSLRs and lenses. I mean its just not fair. If it happens again I'm calling your wife and their won't be any D2HS for you. I'm serious now. :rambo
Exactly! I mean -- I don't know how many times I've told folks to "ignore digital zoom -- it sucks" -- and here this person has the gall to display a fantastic photo "digital zoomed".

http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif

Lee

[bfjr]

Great day at the zoo! I wouldn't have realized you captured the closeup eagle with digital zoom. :thumb Thanks for sharin'.
Hi ya Kirwin
Thanks for looking :thumb

[Ric Grupe]

...this one...

http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/20833913-M.jpg

...make for a very pleasing shot. :thumb

[photoshow]

Shoot bfjr, I thought I posted in this thread last night. I must have hit preview instead of submit. Oh well.


Anywise great shots the Santa Ana Zoo is not an easy zoo to shoot, lots of tight mesh cages that I always seem to have difficulty defocusing. I can hardly ever find the right distance from the mesh there.

So I was there last Sunday late in the afternoon and the Zoo keeper was feeding some of the different critters and giving little talks about them as she went. The crowds as always were small but she had a nice little group following her around and she was doing a great job of educating them as they went.

Of course small zoos like this are always facing funding challenges, the Avairy is currently bird free until they can raise the money to replace the netting, so I bought a Membership (http://www.santaanazoo.org/2mem.htm) for the wife and I ($40.00 for both) which is a bargin for a year if you plan to go back more then a couple times and if not well maybe it will help them get the netting so we can have an open avairy there again.

So maybe we will run into each other there sometime. Love your shots, I think your prosumer out did my D70 and expensive glass here. If you want to see them I have a handful of shots from the SA Zoo at My SmugMug (http://realdealphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/508531)

[bfjr]

Exactly! I mean -- I don't know how many times I've told folks to "ignore digital zoom -- it sucks" -- and here this person has the gall to display a fantastic photo "digital zoomed".

http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif

Lee Hi ya Leebase
Thanks for stopping by :thumb
Will ya feel better if I say beginnners luck :lol4 :D

[bfjr]

Shoot bfjr, I thought I posted in this thread last night. I must have hit preview instead of submit. Oh well.


Anywise great shots the Santa Ana Zoo is not an easy zoo to shoot, lots of tight mesh cages that I always seem to have difficulty defocusing. I can hardly ever find the right distance from the mesh there.

So I was there last Sunday late in the afternoon and the Zoo keeper was feeding some of the different critters and giving little talks about them as she went. The crowds as always were small but she had a nice little group following her around and she was doing a great job of educating them as they went.

Of course small zoos like this are always facing funding challenges, the Avairy is currently bird free until they can raise the money to replace the netting, so I bought a Membership (http://www.santaanazoo.org/2mem.htm) for the wife and I ($40.00 for both) which is a bargin for a year if you plan to go back more then a couple times and if not well maybe it will help them get the netting so we can have an open avairy there again.

So maybe we will run into each other there sometime. Love your shots, I think your prosumer out did my D70 and expensive glass here. If you want to see them I have a handful of shots from the SA Zoo at My SmugMug (http://realdealphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/508531)
Hi ya Bobby

100% on everything you said! I saw the holes in the mesh and bought a membership as well, feel the same way. If these animals have to be in a Zoo so we can see them and they continue to survive only in this way, I have no problem helping pay the bill :thumb.

Visited your gallery and sure enough theres my "Eagle" :D, I guess he's more well known then I thought. Be nice if we could go shoot together. It be nice too if they let us photog types in when the light was better, but then they'd have to pay the help, kinda a Catch22.

Glad you liked, thanks for commenting :thumb

[bfjr]

...this one...



...make for a very pleasing shot. :thumb
Exactly how it struck me at the time, thanks for noticing and commenting :thumb
It took 30 + min though for one of them to at least gimmie a look :D