Santa Ana Zoo PhotoBlog and Film Fest Friday

If you read my last post, you know that I'm back at school and have resumed classes. Hence, my winter break is over. Not that that's all that terrible, actually. The break was fairly uneventful, with the exception of having my wisdom teeth removed. However, there was also something that occurred the day before my oral surgery, and that was a trip to the local Santa Ana Zoo. A friend from school received a camera for Christmas that was very similar to mine and wanted to embark on a photo excursion. Accordingly, we chose the Santa Ana Zoo.

Unfortunately, since most of the animals were in full enclosures, they could not be photographed without some sort of cage or fence getting in the way, and many of my shots have chain links in them. Even so, I was able to take a fair amount of pictures, and those that turned out well I will share with you here.

I know we're supposed to photograph animals at the zoo, but I liked the shot of this plant.


If you read any of my Wild Animal Park posts, you probably know that I love waterfowl.


I love plants like this. My photo partner hates them.


It's not an animal or plant, but I liked this jeep a lot.


This emu came right up to us.


But then he became shy.


We took quite a few monkey pictures, but most of them didn't turn out to well because of the cages.


So we got lots of parrot pictures instead.



These squirrel monkeys were fun.


Cactus!


I really like the narrow-angle lens affect I achieved in this picture.


So this porcupine isn't terribly exciting, but he made my day.



Llamas!


Is your mama a llama?


After wandering around for a bit, we stumbled across this cool aviary. Normally you go to an aviary for the birds, but I was there for the plants...
..

...such as this interesting specimen...


...and this fern.


These berries were kinda cool.


I like ancient ruins.


That's my photographer friend.


Tree canopy!


This rabbit was HUGE!


Hi!


Pigs are cool.


Pansies!

And with the pansies, we conclude.

But we're not done yet! It's Friday! And you know what that means!
This week's feature is a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon called Long-Haired Hare.
This film is rated G by ME. It's Bugs Bunny!



That's all folks! Sorry this post was late, but I had a busy day. School you know.

S'long for now!
T.H. Excellence