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Two weeks ago I was up north in Dubbo (for the judging of one of the national photography exhibitions) and ended up having Sunday free, so spent most of the day wandering around the zoo.
Hlops's images from the zoo prompted me to dig out some of my own to share with you.


I've always had a thing for Giraffe eyes!


Let's just say this raffe wasn't taking No for an answer...
(actually she [the giraffe] was only after the carrots)



The Blackbuck enclosure is apparently always stripped bare of grass, which makes for a tricky photographic background.


I found the American Bison a difficult subject, and settled on detail shots of the fur:






Not something you see very often (it was actually mid-drink, which is something you see even less often).


The Ring-tailed Lemurs were frolicking on the side of their island away from the cafe area, but around on their side the 100-400mm let me reach across the water...

All photos with EOS 20D or 10D with various lenses.

Nice photos, Dave! Was a day cloudy? Light seems to be soft. When we were there light was too contrast and harsh that I gave up to try to capture lemurs - having 80-400 lens I could easily reach them but either black or white part of it was blown

It varied. You can see on the Blackbuck shot that it was quite sunny, but yes at times it was very overcast, and as I left the rain started in earnest.

The first shot is fantastic - easily my fav.
Lots of captions (which I won't share!) popped into my head when I saw #2. It looks like a pretty young chap(ette)
All of the brown colours of #3 work well together - well caught
Although the fur (#4&5) looks good, as photos, the composition doesn't do as much for me as the others
I don't recall seeing a Koala's tongue before
What's with the eyes of the Lemur? Are they usually this wide open and brightly coloured? Is it posessed? Or has someone tossed it some substance!?!
I've enjoyed these shots (am looking forward to going ther myself early next year - haven't been before but keep seeing great photos and hearing good things about it)
Thanks for sharing.