Monday, July 9, 2007

Yuzhno - July Week 1 - The zoo again..

Again.. another sunday afternoon without anything to do... so walked up to the nearby zoo...
You will notice that I do not know the names of these animals... it is simply because everything there is in Russian, with only one or two exceptions.


No, she's not part of the zoo.. I'm sure she's just a visitor.. and yes she looked kind of pissed off ..maybe because holding her pose too long.


This is actually quite far away so I had to zoom about 300mm.


Zoom and crop.


Not sure what is it doing, but this is supposed to be a duck.


Deer?


Was trying out some technique to make the cage invisible, and no, I did not poke the lens thru the cage.


This is the same three-legged wolf I met in Winter... still looked like a hunter. I want to get a dog that look like that someday but with four legs.


She's got to hop around with her three remaining legs.


A hallucinating camel..


A sad horse.


Some wild flowers.


Flowers..


Maybe a parrot?


These kittens are also not part of the zoo, found them in a box beside the monkeys.


This looks like a toad?


Finally manage to wait till it opens its small eyes.


A bird thru a glass cage / container


I know this one... Taeniopygia Guttata


A small house for the zookeeper.


A flower


Some flowers


This lady is not someone I know.. but I took a 300mm zoom on her to test how sharp can a 300mm shot without IS and tripod be. Ok, maybe I should pick a different subject next test.


This two flers.. hmm.. thought I am some photographer, so asked me to take a few pictures for them and send to their home address, told me their address in Russian... tried to write down in my pda but this English-Russian communication thing don't work so good. Also, they thanked me with a hand shake like my hands are the pinchers of a Sri Lankan chilli crab and theirs are the tool to crack open it.

1 comment:

Emily said...

The kitten picture is nice, very greeting card feel =)