Tropical world. Leeds

Cold dull and grey, and raining. So dragged the mrs to Tropical World in Leeds.

Haven't been for a while heard they had a new croc/gaiter. Got there around 10.00am just in time for local junior school to do a tour.

Spent half an hour waiting for the camera to de-mist in the butterfly house, too humid though and wouldn't clear. Even tried wiping lens, just steamed up after 10seconds. It was the most humid that I can remember it though.

They seem to have less butterflys also, still got one or two shots of other critters, pushed the ISO upto 1000, I said it was dull.

All of these are shot through glass which is kept reasonably clean.



Dragon by SFB579, on Flickr



Croc tropical world by SFB579, on Flickr



Bright eyes by SFB579, on Flickr



Bright eyes by SFB579, on Flickr

Mostly shot with the Sigma 70-200 except the croc and that was the Sigma 90mm macro.

Hi Snap, is No 2 you or the Gaitor lol?

Nice ones

Paul

The gaiter is much more attractive than me.

I went to tropical world just after I bought my K-x... I didn't get results as good as these!

Might be time for a return visit...

I think you did well under the circumstances, most if not all butterfly farms need good light coming through the glass roofs.

Last few visits I've had to TW has been reasonable with the light but unfortunately there wasn't much about in the butterfly house, it seems to have become a little run down, we visited the one in Stratford upon Avon a couple of years ago and it was absolutely teeming with several species, I can definitely recommend that one if anyone is in the area.