Posts Tagged ‘zoo’

Jul

2011

Elephant at the St. Louis Zoo

An Oliphaunt

This is another photo from my trip to the St. Louis Zoo, and what visit to the zoo would be complete without seeing the elephants?

I couldn’t get a sense of how big this guy was, there weren’t any reference subjects around him for scale. The ole Nikon 80-200mm worked really well for this range and the apparent size of the subject.

It is quickly becoming my favorite lens.

Some other people seemed to like my camera as well. I had one person offer me to trade cameras, and a random zoo employee said to me “I like your camera, sir.”

I felt like a celebrity…

…a little bit.

Tags: elephant, oliphaunt, zoo
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Jul

2011

Snout of the Hippo

St. Louis Zoo

I went to the St. Louis Zoo over the weekend. It is a fun place with free admission. I took a number of pictures there which I’ll be posting over the next few weeks/months.

This first one was taken of an underwater hippopotamus. There were 4 or so of them all clustered together sleeping. They would raise their large heads up out of the water to breath through their nostrils every so often.

I snapped a few pictures while this one was breathing.

In order to get this shot of the hippo underwater, I hopped the paddock fence and jumped in the pond.

Just kidding!

That would be very dangerous, and even worse, ruin my camera. Don’t do it!

It isn’t even necessary.

There are windowed observation decks below the waterline so you can look at the submerged hippos from a safe and dry location. I highly recommend a visit to the St. Louis Zoo, especially if you have kids!

Tags: hippo, hippopotamus, St. Louis, zoo
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