Yay! another successful trip to the Zoo. Didn't get to catch Ah meng or get a good photo of the white tigers so the practical (photographic) utility of the trip is kinda suspect. However, discounting the photog considerations - it was a pretty fun trip due to the really fun company.
Travel companions were stephen, thomas, junwen, jocelyn and eunice (pictured: right to left) In notable absentia was Glenn who shall now be publicly known as the "pangseh kia" -instigator of the trip and the ah guah boy who passed over a free lift to mandai because he was *tired!*... hey im an m3 and i slept at 4 too. what on earth were you doing glenn which made you that tired hmmm?
We had quite a few cheap laughs at the start of the trip by pretending to be really obnoxious Honkie tourists...we *unfortunately* attracted stares by our loud and really excited calls of something along the lines of:
"WAH! hou leng ah! hai mouuse deear ah! thomas-ah.. leh hai bin dou!?" utterly brainless fun!
we got to see most of the exhibits but missed out on all the shows save one because it rained halfway in the trip. we caught the polar bear feeding show but that was only because we were huddled in the polar bear gallery to get out of the rain. :)
the rain also killed photog for the day because the light levels were effectively zitch for my telephotos which were all around the 300-750 mm range. even with my large aperture of f3.5, i still missed alot of shots due to poor focusing and/or shake. The fact that i didn't bring monopod just accentuated the general failure of the day for phototaking. All the photos that were taken were all with an unacceptable iso of about 800 - 1250. The only reason why they appear to be rather grain free is because i admit, they have been heavily processed. Nikon in this respect has really frustrated me by the lack of grain management. I would gladly trade my megapixels for better grain handling.
As for todays body of work, most of the subjects (animals) have also been photographed in the previous zoo trip. the only excuse i can venture for not attempting other animals is simply the design of the zoo. some enclosures are just not meant for photography. also, the animals were as usual -sluggish, sluggish to the point of almost drug induced. most of the time the animals were either hiding or turning their backs on the crowd. It think its an almost uncanny ability of theirs to frustrate with lovely views of their bums smack in the faces of the eager tourists. :) its really was a far cry from the "nature red in tooth and claw picture" that national geographic paints from their documentaries.
Conversation throughout the trip was kept quite irreverent with stephen, thomas and me providing constant barriage on poor eunice who had to bear the agony of hearing how mathematically she was less significant or that her boobs weren't perfect - nevermind my dear, we still love you. and we were kidding about the boobs.
junwen didn't join in as he was otherwise engaged. *hahaha*
the day ended on a high note with all of us trooping down to the friendly neighbourhood KFC for dinner. I also had my first pineapple pie in months. mhmm.
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