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Rhinos taking a mud bath...

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“Praise The Lord!” I have finally bought myself a decent camera equipment, just as I have threatened to do ever since I joined ZooBeat/Chat... Today it was inaugurated when I visited Copenhagen Zoo and shot 650 pictures in four hours – most of them turned out to be crap, but what the hell… isn’t that what digital photography is all about; having the possibility to go crazy and just click and click and click? Just like professional photographers has always been able to do? Now we amateurs can do having to do that… ).

Old news to all of you, of course, but a strange and beautiful sensation to me who tend to be very late when it comes to acquiring “new and technical stuff”. Don’t ask me what year I bought a CD-player or for that matter a “COLOUR TELEVISION”, HAHA…

But enough now of this nonsense - although I promise that I will not plague you with pictures from my home zoo (Copenhagen) only. I am on vacation and next week I will make a trip to Skånes Djurpark, a very interesting zoo in the south of Sweden concentrating on Nordic animals. I will try to document it as careful as possible and I hope you will find it interesting. Hopefully my new camera will give me an incentive to travel a bit…

Anyway, this Wednesday was a hot one and when I arrived at Copenhagen Zoo the white rhinos were resting in the shade, but then they decided to go for a mud bath. I hope you will enjoy the pictures.

After their mud bath the rhinos decided that the impala herd was not welcome into their territory and so they chased them away. (In the savannah at Copenhagen Zoo all “the other animals” can go into the areas of the rhinos and the hippos but the giants can only stay in their own enclosures.) It was very interesting to watch but unfortunately I could not capture the drama in pictures. It all happened to fast…

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“Praise The Lord!” I have finally bought myself a decent camera equipment, just as I have threatened to do ever since I joined ZooBeat/Chat... Today it was inaugurated when I visited Copenhagen Zoo and shot 650 pictures in four hours – most of them turned out to be crap, but what the hell… isn’t that what digital photography is all about; having the possibility to go crazy and just click and click and click? Just like professional photographers has always been able to do? Now we amateurs can do having to the same… ).

Old news to all of you, of course, but a strange and beautiful sensation to me who tend to be very late when it comes to acquiring “new and technical stuff”. Don’t ask me what year I bought a CD-player or for that matter a “COLOUR TELEVISION”, HAHA…

But enough now of this nonsense - although I promise that I will not plague you with pictures from my home zoo (Copenhagen) only. I am on vacation and next week I will make a trip to Skånes Djurpark, a very interesting zoo in the south of Sweden concentrating on Nordic animals. I will try to document it as careful as possible and I hope you will find it interesting. Hopefully my new camera will give me an incentive to travel a bit…

Anyway, this Wednesday was a hot one and when I arrived at Copenhagen Zoo the white rhinos were resting in the shade, but then they decided to go for a mud bath. I hope you will enjoy the pictures.

After their mud bath the rhinos decided that the impala herd was not welcome into their territory and so they chased them away. (In the savannah at Copenhagen Zoo all “the other animals” can go into the areas of the rhinos and the hippos but the giants can only stay in their own enclosures.) It was very interesting to watch but unfortunately I could not capture the drama in pictures. It all happened to fast…

This picture is no 1 in a series of 5.
 
taun
See I beat you there Dan 600 photo's with my DSLR on its first trip out with it in less than 2 hours. Some nice pics thou Dan :)
 
J
My digital camera take good pics, but the shutter speed is really slow :( I want one of those new panasonic Lumix G1 cameras, but I can't spare about £600 lol.
This is a pretty good photo btw ;)
 
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taun said:
I have learn't to be more controlled now thou and the pics are starting to get better ;)
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Yeah, but on the other hand, isn´t the whole point of digital photography just what I wrote: the possibility to go click, click, click in eternity as opposed to the old school of photography, the one that I practised some 30 years ago:

You had your one or two rolls of 35 mm-film, each one giving you the opportunity to shoot 36 pictures and then you just prayed that they were going to be worth the price (which, in comparison to now, was extremely high).

"Old news to everybody else" as I suggested, but OH BOY what a giant leap for me, HAHA... :D I feel so... relieved... ;)

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I hope that you will have the means to buy that camera that you want in a not to distant future. I have read and heard some very good things about Panasonic cameras!
 
taun
Yes Dan you are right. However to hone your skills more and increase the chance of a good photo its better to learn when to shot but am not saying don't take 5 or 10 at that moment.
 

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