Birthday with Angry Birds

Ok not all of them looked angry. But some looked like they were going to tear my flesh off. Celebrated birthday at the Jurong Bird Park. I can’t say that I love all animals. Birds are not very interesting to me but they are very beautiful animals. Photographing them in flight was a great challenge, especially having to work with a rather slow lens (Nikon 28-300mm), I had to sacrifice clean and noise-less photos.

Kiss Kiss. Lovey Dovey.

Waiting for the Birds of Prey show, aka most of them are angry birds. All the birds had that angry look.

  

See what I mean~ But they are gorgeous.

Before the main show starts at the amphitheatre, they had to transport these parrots to some hidden crates. I had over 50 shots of this and barely 2 made it clean and clear. Luckily, the keepers needed to transport a handful of parrots which gave me the chance to get used their flying speed. It was a huge pain!

  

Last photo.

Bao Bao at Sentosa

It has been such a long time since we last brought Bao Bao to Sentosa. Borrowed Wesley’s car and brough the dog to Tanjong Beach. Tanjong Beach is a paradise for dogs and their owners. Dog owners prefer to bring their pooches to Tanjong Beach because it is far away from the human crowd (Siloso Beach especially), which means lesser unwanted collision. But still, dogs are still expected to be leashed at all times.

Multi-tasking.

Smile!

Dicapac WP-S10 washed up shore.

Waiting for the waves.

Braving the waves.

Anticipation.

Pre-Birthday @ Singapore Zoo

It has been more than 5 years since we last visited the Singapore Zoo. Decided to have my birthday celebration in the Zoo instead. Rented FX Nikon 28-300mm lens. A very good travel lens, especially useful when long zoom is needed. It is equivalent to a DX Nikon 18-200mm lens. After much testing, I felt that the focus area is rather soft than sharp. When you turn the lens from 280mm – 300mm, there is no zooming at all. A shortcoming of this lens.

The Singapore Zoo has changed quite a lot. Thanks to Wen Wei for his good planning that we managed to see all the shows and catch most of the feeding of animals.

The first feeding of the day. Elephant bathing and feeding as early as 9.15am.

The white tiger is one of the main attractions. By the way, from the commentary, white tigers are different from Albino tigers. Albino tigers do not even have stripes.

 

Waiting for the “Rainforest Fights Back” show.

  

Hungry~~~

Speak no evil

Loves~