No African wildlife yet, so here's something to tide you over. We made a slightly tamer photographic safari trip down to the British Wildlife Center down near Lingfield, south of London.
This was a photographic day where the keepers let us into the cages with the animals, whilst they fed them. We took ridiculous quantities of pictures - which is good practice for Africa.
The first shot is a Little Owl, the other two are of a Scottish Wild Cat (basically, a REALLY hard tabby).
She was the keepers favourites because they could approach her, she would bristle and snarl (nicely posing for the cameras) and settle down as they backed off.
The other cats would respond to the keepers approach by either:
- Bristle, then run away and then hide - not great for photo's.
- Or snarl, leap on the keeper and claw the living daylights out of them - this is great for photo's, however somewhat less popular with the keepers.
I've uploaded a number of shots here:
Some of the shots are very similar, I haven't mastered the art of post processing work flow well enough yet to eliminate all the obvious similar shots (also a slight lack of originality in the composing).
Can I just say, in closing, that the little owl was gorgeous...
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