Pic of the Day: Jungle Baby

**zippyjuan** · 09-21-2005, 11:26 AM

San Diego Zoo this week:

**speedracer120** · 09-21-2005, 12:32 PM

Those eyes are freaky.

**Jenny** · 09-21-2005, 12:34 PM

Awwww, cute!!

**smeakim** · 09-21-2005, 12:55 PM

What do you shoot with? Was that with a telephoto?

**esme** · 09-21-2005, 02:03 PM

very cute .....very white bushy eyebrows too!

**zippyjuan** · 09-21-2005, 05:05 PM

My camera has the equivelent of a 28- 200mm zoom on it. It is also eight mega pixels so I can crop quite a bit and still look good- but I did not crop a lot off of this one. Shooting at the zoo was hard. With autofocus, it tended to focus on the glass or wire of the cages. Manual is sometimes a little slower to get right which is made harder if the animals are moving. This guy was close enough and not moving for a couple of moments so I was able to get a good one. I thought it was more interesting peeking out of the plants than just sitting in a cage. If you have never been to the San Diego Zoo, it is one of the best in the world and they recently opened a new monkey exhibit which is where I found this one. The baby panda is not on exhibit yet (but its parents are) but you can see a live TV monitor shot of it.