I tried with the fish, Chuck. I'm just glad I wasn't shooting film ...
Joel
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Despite your complaints you did manage to get a good shot of a fish.
> There are lots of nice ones in there and you did manage to catch some
> interesting gorilla expressions.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> The controling purpose of our visit to Omaha was the Henry Doorly Zoo.
>> Fun, attractive place -- recommended. Especially nice as far as I am
>> concerned is the Butterfly Pavilion. Otherwise, you'll see some small
>> mammals and a snake or two from the Desert Pavilion. There is a
>> Tropical Pavilion and an aquarium. The large primates were outside
>> -- must have been for the first time this season. The gorillas were
>> quizzical. Maybe they are just like that. I was empathetic and have
>> included doubtless too many gorilla photos.
>>
>> The aquarium was impossible for me. At highest ISOs I still couldn't
>> get a shutter speed that was adequate to most subjects. Utterly
>> dependent upon IS and luck of catching subjects at a stationary moment
>> (when is aquatic life NOT moving?).
>>
>> In short -- ANOTHER ZOO GALLERY!!! --- aaaarrrrrrggggghhh!
>>
>> I didn't pay attention to the names of the animals I was shooting, so
>> I did no annotations. A shortcoming, in retrospect.
>>
>> Most shots were made with the DZ 50-200 (slower, older one -- you
>> know, the one with the GOOD glass -- hehe). Among the butterflies I
>> added the DZ 1.4 TC here and there.
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008647&id=1261510733&l=d0908062a9
>>
>> Joel W.
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