From the Zoo

On a recent trip to Copenhagen I managed a short visit to the Zoo. All shots with my Sigma 70-300 APO lens.



The lions are obviously enjoying the sun...



This little creature gave me a good look before disappearing down the tunnel.



Finally an attempt of a character portrait.

Actually they are scenting the air. Somebody near you obviously had a rather delicious smell.

I always used to smear myself in hyaena dung when walking in lion country.

G

That must have been a difficult habit to break when you moved to the IOM George :

Great images, thanks for sharing.

Nice.....Easy for me to spot it was MY zoo

Very nice set of images - I got a few of those lions -

I'd sooner bring along a slow-moving friend...

Thank you, Keen2learn and Nimitz, for your kind comments. And yes, Nimitz, of course it is your Zoo - a wonderful place to spend a sunny afternoon. Just lucky to get an afternoon off between two jobs.

As for the rest of you, I appreciate a good joke, but I would rather have some constructive comments to my images, even if I forgot to ask for C&C in my original post.

My "office" is in a sun-room, which is very bright during the day. As a result, what I see on screen is very dull and flat.

In the evening, pictures come alive, and looking at the lions now, I am struck by the wonderful quality of the light, which I think is even more important to the success of this image than the happy composition or the interesting pose they have all adopted.

I had a look at the EXIF data, and, unless your camera is showing the wrong time, the picture was taken mid-afternoon, which surprised me. I would have expected it to have been taken in early evening.

Anyway, great shot. My only advice is to try and maintain the same standard!

G

PS: Clarky, it wasn't such a problem. There are no hyaenas here, so I had no "materiel".

PPS: Don, I found that my slow-moving friends speeded up considerably when I turned up in my lion-country gear.

Sorry Terry but couldn't resist George's comment.
I am also in the office and my work computer is locked out of most sites where people store there online pics. So i couldn't see your pics to make a comment.
Normally i wouldn't say anything, but as i said i couldn't resist George's comment.

In general, I like the (camel/llama/alpaca?) pic because of the attitude he's giving. You captured that and the detail of the fur well. But I think the highlights are a bit blown and the roofline above him takes away from the composition.

I agree. Nice pose. It's also a bit over-sharpened in my view.

G

A photograph posted without a specific question is fair game. Not out of line for anybody to think that you would be interested in whatever reaction people may have to the image. Even if that happens to be some jovial banter.

The first one (for reasons already stated) is a nice shot.
the second two (esp the last), appear to me, as a little overexposed. trying to bring out detial in the fur, where the lighting was too harsh. (or the camera was on auto, and the dark tones tricked the meter into overexposure).