#15 Whenever I go to the Zoo ...

MarkR

The Rhinos (brothers) fight.

Title: Sibling Rivalry
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Or just wait til Christmas-Eve when the misery-in-law shows up? :rofl

Greensquared

Hi Mark! None of these are really standing out to me. It seems your biggest challenge here is the shooting conditions (bars that you're having to shoot around), and there's a fair amount of motion blur in some of them. They aren't bad, but none of them are standing out as having strong composition.

MarkR

Hmm, yes. The bars are a problem. Maybe next time they start fighting I'll get a zookeeper to let me in so the bars aren't in the way.

Oh well ...

And there was a wonderful interaction between a mother gorilla and her daughter, but it was behind plexiglass and fencing, so the results are even worse than the rhino shots.

dcorrin

at the zoo

MarkR wrote:

but it was behind plexiglass

what zoo are you shooting at?

Plexiglass isn't always a bad thing.



(these are from the Sedgwick County Zoo, in Wichita Kansas)

and sometimes you can even work with fencing too



but doesn't your zoo have places where you have a clear view of the animals when they are outdoors?


Can I make my break now?

MarkR

dcorrin wrote:

what zoo are you shooting at?

Plexiglass isn't always a bad thing.

There are only a few places in that zoo where I can't get good shots -- they just happened to be the few places where the animals were interacting in a manner consistent with the theme for this contest.

Plexiglass:


Wire cages:


The great outdoors:


But indoors shots + plexiglass + wire cages + direct sunlight + mixed flourescent lighting + midmorning glare = sad photographer. :cry