John, Yes, that's the gallery! I remember the last shot for the 600mm lens, white beard and the giraffe!!! It inspired us to take 4 or 5 of these trips over the years. This holiday season the spots were all filled and the canvas tops on the trucks made shade on the close-ups. But the kids, now 25-31 years old, giggled like teenagers. It was a fun trip. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:35 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:58:31AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> Let's try this again with a better breakout on the INTENDED picture >> >> >> We went for some warm weather and sunshine in San Diego, and >> took the family to see the animals. >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/rf.sullivan/FeedingTheAnimals#5422361187752097474 >> >> DA60-250/4 - 60mm plus f5.6 @ 1/1250 & ISO 400 >> (Did I say I really like this lens...) >> >> We went on a 'Photo Safari' - 2+ hours riding on the back of a big >> truck in the animal enclosures. John Francis's pictures on the pdml >> some 10 years ago got us started with this. It used to be more >> serious photographers on the back of a stake backed truck. >> Now they have cushions on the benches and a canvas top over the 15 or >> so riders, and mainly families with point and shoot cameras. ?We took >> our daughter-in-law because she had never been, and remembered pix of >> feeding the giraffes from the past. I can still recommend the trip >> based on the smiles we got. >> Regards, ?Bob S. > > You must mean this gallery: > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/sdwap.html> > > I think they tailor the ride to the audience of the day. While I did > find several places that used all of the 600mm lens, two of the shots > in that gallery were taken by my wife using her little point-and-shoot. > > I would expect that the 60-250 would do fairly well on a 1.5x crop DSLR. > > > I'm glad to see there are now several of the Indian rhinos. When we > were there they were pretty excited because they'd just had a calf > born - I think it may even have been the first one born in the park. > > (And yes, they *do* look like the Durer print, don't they? :-) > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
