Your favourite photography subject of 2019

[littleRedPanda]

I'm sure this will be expanded beyond a single character or family, but 'who' have you most enjoyed photographing this year.

For me, it was far and away the Polar bear cub (Hertha) in Berlin. How I wished I had a better lens at the time, but still special seeing such a lively young cub.

 

[d1am0ndback]

In terms of wildlife it is likely the vagrant Varied Thrush that spent two days in Central Texas. The bird was not particularly compliant for photos but I spent a good 3 hours following it around and photographing it so I got some fantastic shots of it.

In terms of captivity, that likely would be the Peruvian Meadowlark at the Nashville Zoo. I was expecting the bird to be extremely difficult to see but it was rather the opposite and provided me with a variety of angles and great shots all around.

 

[TheGerenuk]

I thoroughly like photographing two subjects: Granby's Japanese serows and Buffalo's sand cats.

 

[amur leopard]

London zoo's male Sumatran tiger

 

[Brum]

I don't do photography as a rule, but I did spend a fair bit of time with All Things Wild's golden jackals, Hoo Farm's African civets also captured my imagination more than usual.

 

[RetiredToTheZoo]

For me, it was photographing the wild grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park. Very challenging but also very enjoying and rewarding.

 

[KevinB]

For me in 2019 my particularly favored photography subjects were parrots, from the lorikeets at my local zoos to the rare species at Pairi Daiza.

Another favorite were the black-and-rufous elephant shrews at Zoo Antwerpen.

 

[Arizona Docent]

Ocelot kittens at El Paso Zoo, followed closely by sand cat kittens at Hogle Zoo. Also caracal kitten at Cat Haven and Mexican wolf pups at Phoenix Zoo.

 

[Dormitator]

Easily the pygmy shrew in Wroclaw, followed by Baby in Duisberg and the gaur calf in Dortmund.

 

[GregOz]

Definitely living in Singapore and visiting the zoo's a lot more, I finally broke the curse of never seeing the Javan langur so that would be my favourite. Close second to the smooth coated otters we see pretty regularly where we live.

 

[Neva]

Well, my main favourite subject was Asiatic golden cat. For the first time I saw them in Wuppertal in 2018, I still remember my heartbeat then... So I'd planned and went to Heidelberg and Munster in Spring - specially for them.

And beside AGC there were other cats, like Leopardus guttulus, Rusty-spotted cats/Fishing cats in Ostrava and absolutely fantastic Pallas's cat family - which I had a chance to observe from the first time on the main enclosure .