> > > As long-time readers of this list will know, I've taken *my* > > favourite lens out to the Safari Park, too. > > > See <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/sdwap.html> > > They're nice pictures, especially the gorilla looking right at the > camera.
Thanks. That was the dominant male in the enclosure - he was beginning to wonder whether he needed to warn me off. Eye contact (or lens contact) is threatening behaviour in gorilla-speak. Fortunately I was far enough away (with a 200mm, I believe) that he decided I wasn't in competition. > Is San Diego Safari Park part of San Diego Zoo? If so, next time you > go could you get some photos of the Bonobos, please? I don't think the Bonobos were prominent when I visited. The Wild Animal Park is associated with the Zoo, but it's not co-located with it. Not that you'd want to try and do them both in the same day; each warrants at least a whole day, especially if you spring for the photo safari. San Diego isn't exactly local - it's around 500 miles from here. I do get down to Southern California once or twice a year (for the Long Beach race, and sometimes for the Fontana event), and I've been thinking that it's about time I took a little extra time and went back to San Diego, especially as I'm always loaded up with long lenses when I'm down there. But it looks as though I won't be getting to Fontana this year - I'll probably be on a business trip to Singapore. Such a hardship. Maybe I'll persuade my wife to take the trip to Long Beach again next year, although she's thinking about the Surfer's Paradise race (Australia).
