Chester zoo

Hi everyone,

These are some of pics I took at chester zoo. I've posted some more in the birds section Taken with my Nikon D40 and 55-200mm lens. Thanks for looking and any comments would be most welcome!

Cheers

Lambrini girl

Lovely photo's my favourite is the otters

Also this one i think needs a caption competition:

I have to say that chimp one is just delightful!
Becky

he he i love the cheeky monkey ! he`s lovely and the top pic !

Some super shots, 5,6,7 are me faves, esp 7

How do you find the 55-200? I am thinking of getting one...

Love the otters and the chimp

With the tiger, how far from the mesh were you? The mesh is rather distracting unfortunately

Lovely sharp pics and great subjects

Great pics I love the first one.

Nice shots lambrini girl, I like the reptile shots and the Jaguar

The 55-200mm lens is well worth getting in my opinion. I would have not got half the shots I got of the animals without it! It performs very well, even in my beginner hands, I think I got it in a kit with the body, 18-55mm lens and the 55-200mm lens and I am really glad I did.

Greyhawk, I know exactly what you mean but unfortunately I was about 4 or 5 feet away behind a barrier and then there was the metal fencing you can see in the shot. I tried everything to blur it out somehow but I just couldn't. With a lot of the bird shots I did, the fences and netting were a lot finer and I could get rid of that easily or I could poke the lens through a gap , but not what the tiger was behind Naybe next time I'll be lucky and not have so much fence in the way but the way that tiger was growling I certainly wouldn't want to be much closer without that fence

The chimp was a really lucky shot and I'm glad you all like it

Thanks again for your lovely comments

Lambrini girl