buhnANGIE's Photo Blog!: The Bronx Zoo

I went to the Bronx Zoo on Wednesday and took more pictures than a tourist. Usually when I go to the zoo, the animals are always hidden away sleeping in their caves and behind bushes. This time though, they were all active and playing around, which probably explains why I was able to fill all three of my memory cards, which adds up to 8 gigs. These are my favourites from the 400 pics I took. I think combing through and picking the best of the batch was actually the hardest part of my whole editing process.

The polar bear was among the first animals we saw. It was napping in the morning, but when we doubled back in the afternoon, it was awake and pacing around its enclosure.

If I had to pick any animal from the zoo to bring home as a pet, it would be the red panda. It's my absolute favorite. Unfortunately, this was the one animal I wasn't able to catch awake. We went back in the afternoon but it had moved off, and it was nowhere to be seen.

I'm pretty sure I shot about a hundred pictures of the bears. It was so hard to choose a favorite, but the cub's goofy expression made the photo. Initially when I got to their exhibit, they were just standing around, but after a bit, they jumped into their pool and started splashing around and mock fighting each other. I turned to leave when they calmed down, and by then I already had about fifty shots, but then they jumped into another pool and started all over again. That caused me to stay for another good while. I'm going to have to do another post dedicated to the bears.

Oh my goodness, the lions were amazing. I think there were a total of three cubs, and they were so energetic. They were climbing on their mom and jumping on each other. I have so many outtakes of them; I'll upload those later too. Again, it was the expression that led me to choose this photo for this post. It's like the embodiment of youth in the way his face is filled with curiosity.