It’s the motion of the ocean. Now I’m not one for phallic inferiority. Mainly because I never look, be it in the gym’s changing room or standing at the urinals, it’s just wrong. Ok I think this is getting a bit off-topic, time for a rapid U-turn or as the sibling so sweetly puts it, ‘flip a bitch.’ Last Saturday I woke up bright and early, admittedly not my most favourite thing to do on a Saturday but there you go. I swung by N’s place, picked his tousled head up and drove down to San Diego to visit the Wild Animal Park for a spot of photography.

Now usually wherever I go with my camera I get a few oohs and aahs, especially if I have my 70-200 F4 L (see below) which is long (hehe) and white (hmm…that just sounds wrong). I’ve even had people make way for me as they think I’m a pro, though with my usual attire of scruffy jeans, uncombed hair and flip flops I’m not sure what gives them that impression.

 

Unfortunately N blew my lens completely out of the water by renting the Sigma 50-500mm (see below). The damn thing was like a tank buster, approached Ron Jeremy proportions and made everybody in close proximity to it swoon. There was even a girl with a nice but, nice top and a questionable face (hey that’s why the phrase ‘cover the face, work the base’ was invented) who couldn’t take her eyes off it. N off course in true style couldn’t help hamming it, playing the pro. I did note with some amusement that his hands were shaking with the effort of holding the lens up, size isn’t everything I guess. 

 

Size and weight aside damn did that lens get close, 200mm felt so inadequate. After seeing how close he got I think my next purchase is going to be the Canon 100-400mm IS lens, wait no I have to buy a flash first…oh but a macro. Bugger this photography business is expensive. Mental note to eat cheerios for the rest of the year and save all my money.

Anyways to cut a rambling post short it was a fun day. I took around a 1000 pictures, groveled on the floor of an aviary to take some of a brightly coloured bird, much to the surprise of some of the park’s patrons and saw a plethora of Lamborghini’s on the drive to there and back (and almost blew my engine out trying to keep up with one, note to self: RAV4 vs. Mucielago is not really a contest…ever). N only took around 180 apparently because he isn’t as trigger happy as me, well each to their own technique I guess.

There was one grip I had and it’s a gripe I have with most animal pictures. Why do they always, always from Gerenuks to Gorillas, have to face away from the camera? I mean I’m an ass man myself, but this is not what I had in mind.