Malayan Tiger at the San Diego Zoo

Frank B

I've been lurking here for a while, and putting pictures in my SmugMug account for a few years now, and thought it was about time I posted a few here. Lately I've been spending a lot of my free time at the San Diego Zoo, mostly with the tigers and other big cats. Until last week I was usually shooting with an old Nikon AF 300 f/4.0 ED-IF (the pre-AF-S one they discontinued about the same year I bought it - 1999), on a D7000. Just got an AF-S 300 2.8 VR II. The difference in the technology is amazing. I generally use a monopod, occasionally hand-held.

Here are a few shots of one of the Malayan Tigers from this past weekend. We had a short period of really excellent light on Sunday morning.





The light on Friday mid-afternoon wasn't quite as nice, but I always like watching this guy.



There are more on my blog, with links from there to the various SmugMug galleries with even more.

Paradisean

Wow! That first one feels intense. Excellent capture!

Lowell

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ian408

That first is spectacular. Great subject too