Los Angeles Zoo

The end to a wonderful weekend.

With covering the Long Beach Middle School boys track meet, the BC All-American Football, and now the Los Angeles Zoo, it was a full but wonderful weekend.

My daughter asked about going to the zoo and although I had a full Saturday I thought it would be nice for us to have a family outing at the zoo. Now originally I planned on leaving the camera at home and just enjoying the day, but as you can see that didn't work. I ended up bringing my 300 and see what I could get. As you'll see I was glad I did bring the camera with the beast (my 300).

Here are some random shots from the various exhibits.

I could stay at the tiger exhibit all day just watching them.

Here's where the fun begins. While in the area around the chimpanzee's looking at other exhibits we heard loud noise coming from the chimpanzee's exhibit. They were yelling / screaming as if fighting, or at least that's how it sounded to us. So we went over to the exhibit to see what was going on. As it turned out there was one chimpanzee who appeared very agitated, which caused the rest of them to become agitated. They would just start running around every time this one chimpanzee came near and boy did they show their teeth. We stayed for a bit watching and taking pictures. I was glad I brought the beast with me.

Here a few shots to share.

And to end a wonderful weekend, here is a shot of two of the three (my son didn't come) most important people in my life, my wife and daughter "sweetheart".

Saturday at the Zoo

I would have liked to shoot some soccer on this last Saturday but the games were rained out and my daughter has been asking to go to the Los Angeles Zoo. The plan was to shoot a game early and then go to the zoo, but due to heavy rain on Friday night they were all cancelled, so we went to the zoo early.


Now while at the zoo it rained a bit, but my daughter and I just found some shelter under some trees and waited for it to stop. I did bring the beast with me, which is my 300 f/2.8L IS lens to take some shots. I was very pleased with what I ended up with.


I know this site was made to display my action shots but sometimes you just have to share with everyone the shots you took. So I'm sharing with ya'all. Enjoy.