Blank Park Zoo
Jun. 4th, 2012 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guppiecatWhen I went to Des Moines for the booksale, I also took a bit of personal time and went to the Blank Park Zoo. I used to go to that zoo a lot, but stopped about a year before I moved away from Iowa. So much of my time was being spent traveling that when I was home, I was processing photos from others zoos and didn't want to go to my "home" one. It was interesting to visit. It had changed a bit, but not much. A lot of zoo changes seem to be superficial, just tidying things up but not really expanding the collection. I suppose this is OK, as I'd rather be somewhere with a few happy animals than a lot of sad ones. Still, it would have been nice if the frogs had still been there. I'm guessing something infected the tanks because everything was being restarted. Anyway, the set is here. There are no titles or funny captions, as I'm pushing to get caught up with processing.
These are not zoo frogs. They are Iowa-native frogs and they were about five elephants away from me... I love my big lens.
The male lion passed away a couple weeks before I got there. The two lionesses are now alone.
Drama bird is over-saturated... but I like how it looks anyway.
I like the translucency you can see around the fish.
These are not zoo frogs. They are Iowa-native frogs and they were about five elephants away from me... I love my big lens.
The male lion passed away a couple weeks before I got there. The two lionesses are now alone.
Drama bird is over-saturated... but I like how it looks anyway.
I like the translucency you can see around the fish.
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Date: 2012-06-04 10:41 pm (UTC)Yay, you have photos of Berry, who was born in the Detroit Zoo! Thank you!
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Date: 2012-06-05 01:01 am (UTC)I like the winking lioness too, but every time I looked at her other pictures, she seemed lonely and missing her friend. It didn't seem right to make fun of her in the set.
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Date: 2012-06-04 11:42 pm (UTC)That is the most incredible photo of a black swan, and the peacock is great as well.
"The frogs...were about five elephants away" LMAO I have a new measure of distance!
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Date: 2012-06-05 01:02 am (UTC)Also, it turns out that I suck at visually measuring distance. I learned that when I started driving. I just have no mental concept of feet, miles, kilometers, etc. I know meters, but I lose that distance when I hit about five of them.
I do, however, know how big the average elephant is. :)
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Date: 2012-06-05 09:12 pm (UTC)Poor lionesses.
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