My rotten luck at the zoo

windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
edited July 22, 2005 in Wildlife
i dont think there is noone that knows better than me - 'Never go to the Bronx Zoo on Wednesday"! Its a free day and its packed with every lunatic and miserable undisciplined child. But I went today - WHY! Because it was the 1st nice day in so long and i hadnt been there in awhile!!! Took 50 shots - NO KEEPERS!!! Too crowded and too many unruly children leaning on my monopod, grabbing my monopod just bugging the heck out of me! The only image Im not ashamed to post.... and it could have been better if people would just have left me to be.... NEVER GO TO THE BRONX ZOO ON WEDNESDAY!


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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2005
    Man I feel your Pain, honest went to Zoo not long ago and left didn't take one shot for all the reasons you just said.
    But hey your one keeper, is just that A KEEPER!!!
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2005
    Yes, Windoze, I really like that shot.

    I can feel his personality.

    ginger

    I really do not like zoos. We don't have one here.
    But I will be going with my grandkids in another year.

    And I will try taking pictures. I have never done well at the zoo. I don't think I have had a lens as long as I do now, though.

    That is really a nice picture.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2005
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D
    see another good use for a mono pod just keep your camera off of it :D and one keeper like this the day is well spent so stop with the comp;aints
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Thats why...
    I loved my FZ10...with OIS, I rarely had to use any mono-pod, tri-pod, or pea in a pod.. I just lifed and shot.

    I've got some nice zoo pics. Hmm...I might have repost them though. I'm not sure I have them up since smugmug closed my account.

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  • Phil U.Phil U. Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Oh man, I feel your pain. Whenever I'm in/at some "attraction" I always feel like I'm having to battle off the unruly brats. I want to slap the parents every time one of their kids steps on my bag, knocks into my tripod, or pushes in between my legs to get to what I'm looking at. Grrrrrr.... gerg.gif :bash :gun2

    Or maybe I'm just an ol' grump.
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    too funny!!!! Thanx Harry!

    troy


    Harryb wrote:
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,951 moderator
    edited July 21, 2005
    Buck up and buy a season pass :D

    What better way to see the zoo on your terms, save a little money and
    support the place. All at the same time thumb.gif

    I say it somewhat in jest but the season pass will let you go whenever you
    want and you'll not feel bad about leaving after 30 minutes either.

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  • BrianLowtherBrianLowther Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Thats a scarey image ...
    Harryb wrote:
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D
    How do you take the pictures while you are doing the dancing?:D
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited July 21, 2005
    awwwwww, rotten luck but your tale takes me back. The Bx Zoo was my backyard playground as a kid. I grew up on Mapes Ave at 181st St. (It was a nice neighborhood way back then... WAY back then)

    At the time, one of my uncles held the license to run the concession stands so I was in the park almost everyday after school.

    Remember the audio boxes that were once mounted to the railings outside each cage that played recorded information about each animal? And the plastic elephant-trunk keys that activated them?

    Great shot of the gorilla! thumb.gif
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited July 21, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D

    See jeff, I knew I wasn't using that darn mono properly!!! harry has the right idea.
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    HEY IAN,

    " Buy a season pass " ???????????
    Im am one of the highest individual sponsors you can be at the Bronx Zoo!
    That's what hurts! I pay $250.00 a year for myself. They should let me in the Gorilla exhibit and pet them for that kind of money.... The money i dont mind however.....


    I just need to remind myself - dont go on a free day


    thanx for looking!

    troy


    ian408 wrote:
    Buck up and buy a season pass :D

    What better way to see the zoo on your terms, save a little money and
    support the place. All at the same time thumb.gif

    I say it somewhat in jest but the season pass will let you go whenever you
    want and you'll not feel bad about leaving after 30 minutes either.

    Ian
  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    You failed to make proper use of your monopod. If used properly young tikes won't go near you. :D
    I walk with two "forearm" crutches. Works the same as your monopod suggestion . . . .

    whoops 29253925-M.gif
    sorry about your foot 29253925-M.gif
    did I do that? 29253925-M.gif
    do you want me to call 911 for you? 29253925-M.gif

    heeehee
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,951 moderator
    edited July 21, 2005
    windoze wrote:

    I just need to remind myself - dont go on a free day

    Doh! Good for you!

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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    I used to work at the Brookfield Zoo outside of Chicago and I completely understand what you mean by not going on free days. One free day there was a storm soo bad that nearly a 1/4 of the trees in the zoo got knocked over or severely damaged and there were still people there scurrying from animal house to animal house.
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    thanx ben,
    i hope to get back to the zoo at least twice / three times a week starting next week..


    troy
    bfjr wrote:
    Man I feel your Pain, honest went to Zoo not long ago and left didn't take one shot for all the reasons you just said.
    But hey your one keeper, is just that A KEEPER!!!
  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    how true! i would never mind children that ask first or say excuse me... but the bronx zoo is an inner city zoo with inner city children. not that its bad to live in the inner city but the hardships of city life have left many children without both parents without proper resources without adequate financial resources for their care etc.... but in the end i blame the parents




    Phil U. wrote:
    Oh man, I feel your pain. Whenever I'm in/at some "attraction" I always feel like I'm having to battle off the unruly brats. I want to slap the parents every time one of their kids steps on my bag, knocks into my tripod, or pushes in between my legs to get to what I'm looking at. Grrrrrr.... gerg.gif :bash :gun2

    Or maybe I'm just an ol' grump.
  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited July 22, 2005
    Laughing.gif Troy, armed with a monopod AND a Bigma and the kids still bugged you? As Harry mentioned, you've got to learn how to get the most out of your equipment rolleyes1.gif J/K I know how bad that sort of day can be.

    Good job nailing Mr Gorilla though thumb.gifthumb.gif

    I know what you mean about the first nice day in awhile. It sure was hot, humid and rainy while I was Upstate :uhoh I took a few hundred shots at the family reunion and people's tops were soaked. And we were inside rolleyes1.gif


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