I spent much of yesterday at the San Diego Zoo, where I relearned something I already knew: zoo photography is hard. Bars and wires, busy backgrounds, shy and dozing animals, and light either too glaring or too shadowy present real challenges even when the animals are still - which they rarely are. Nevertheless, I got some portrait shots that are not too bad.
(Click to enlarge) Silverback gorilla
(Click to enlarge) Pheasant(?)
(Click to enlarge) Flamingo
(Click to enlarge) Duck
(Click to enlarge) Monkey
(Click to enlarge) Small African antelope (dik-dik?)
(Click to enlarge) Slightly larger African antelope (springbok?) in silhouette
(Click to enlarge) Meerkat keeping an eye on the sky
(Click to enlarge) Bactrian (two-humped) camel
