To finish of the holidays & before the kids went back to school, we took a run to Belfast Zoo. I took this opportunity to take a few shots (ahem….over 500) of the various animals and birds.

I’m begining to think I prefer to photograph animals or wildlife more than other type of photography. I find it more relaxing, especially compared to Portraiture. I still plan to learn more about different types though.

The downfall of photographing animals in a zoo, is the cages, glass panels etc. They limit you, sometimes you can focus out the fences (if you’re lucky) and the reflections off the glass can be a pain – I had a lot picture with ruined by the reflections. I also got some decent images through the glass also. I wonder if a polarizer would help – must look into that.

Anyway – I’ve uploaded the images to Flickr, but here’s one of my favourite.

~ Keith ~