national zoo
May. 25th, 2011 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Lena, my Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 and I went to the National Zoo on Saturday. Sunday we went to Ikea (minus the Nikkor that time). There were children everywhere on both days. Lena liked seeing the cats.
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She took this photograph of the tiger yawning.
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I wanted to see the Pandas. We were lucky to catch them while they were active (eating). This guy looked a little like he was smoking a cigar.
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When I went to the Bronx Zoo years ago, one of my best photographs was of a non-zoo duck poking his head out of the foliage that looked like he was about to say AFLAC (or perhaps making insensitive jokes about disaster victims). This butterfly is a non-zoo butterfly that I just happened to see between zoo animals.
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This Kingfisher is extinct in the wild according to the sign on its display in the bird house. It reminded me of the less colorful Kookaburra back home.
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