On Saturday, Dallas dragged me out for an 8 hour class. Thankfully, she has a habit of dragging me to fun outdoor events, and this was no exception. The class was Photography: On Safari at Zoo Atlanta, put on by Ron Mayhew and Evening at Emory. In a nutshell, he made us walk around the zoo and capture boring photos like this meditating Western Lowland Gorilla:
When Ron asked each one of us what we were looking to get out of the class, I answered “To get a smiling animal”. It’s easy to make this happen at Zoo Atlanta:
Afterwards, I told him that my real goal was to make Dallas happy, but I’m pretty sure that I achieved both goals. Here is a random giraffe:
I used my Nikkor 80-200mm F/2.8 lens all day long, though sometimes with my Tamron 1.4X teleconverter. Even with such a short telephoto, I was able to do some birding:
It shames me that I’ve been living in Atlanta for 3 years without visiting Zoo Atlanta before. After 8 hours and 1300 photos, I still barely scratched the surface at the zoo. I could easily have stayed for an additional two days worth. The park is much bigger than you would think from an aerial shot.
If you are a sucker for animal photos, be sure to check out the rest of my Zoo Atlanta album
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