I struggle with the taking of pixtures through glass.
I think I understand and execute the theory ok .... but somehow it fells like cheating to me.
The San Diego Zoo has a display of Caimans that call only be shot through the glass that surrounds their area.
This one came out "ok" the depth of field is a little wrong, along the snout.
A case of shooting without enthusiasm and/or not thinking the shot through before I took it.
And of course .... the whole thing would have worked better had he been facing towards me.
I have been traveling to San Diego .... pretty much every other month for the last year.
My usual stay is two weeks .... and the weekend in the middle is mine for a little sightseeing.
So far, my favorite place to go has been La Jolla Cove.
On one side, you have the ocean and all the goings on associated with the resident seal population.
On the other side of the walkway is a park .... rich in the goings on of people.
In the people park is this tree .... and it's darn interesting too.
It was a whole new Zoo adventure for me this weekend.
The world famous San Diego Zoo.
Much, much larger than the Denver Zoo .... but I am not sure if I would call it better.
There were animals that we don't have in Denver including this guy .... a Koala.
But some of the animals I am used to seeing .... like tigers.
Didn't seem to be more plentiful or in better habitats.
To be fair, it was a warm day .... and all the big animals see to be shy and slow moving in those conditions.
I buy a pass to the Zoo every year .... a Family Plan pass.
The idea is that I will take the Grandkids a couple of times a year .... but as it turns out, I am a bigger fan of the Zoo than they are.
I like to take pixtures at the Zoo .... and I particularly like it when I take my big lens.
I haven't been on "photo safari" but twice this year .... one of those trips was last Friday.
It was a hot day .... probably too hot to be a great pixture day. Too hot for the animals .... not too hot for me.
But even a bad day at the Zoo yields some good pixtures.
They have moved the Rhinos, from the really ugly enclosure that they used to live in .... to a new and spacious area that they now share with the Elephants.
There is kind of an inconvenient fence around that whole enclosure, that makes for not real good for pixture taking.
But I guess we need to be sure that both the Rhinos and the people stay on their respective sides.
It was another fun year at the Pro Cycling Challenge.
A different kind of photography than what I had done the last two years.
Out on the course, trying to get the peloton as flew by.
We went for the last day in Denver and picked a spot where they would pass us each way on the 8 laps that they made of the route that day.
Anyone who has done this kind of photography will laugh when I say .... it was much harder than I had anticipated.
I kind of like this one (but wouldn't call it perfect) as it shows the peloton stretched out enough that the whole line isn't in focus.
