{"id":154,"date":"2009-06-26T00:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-02-28T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:36:35","slug":"more-san-diego-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2009\/06\/26\/more-san-diego-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"More San Diego Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/heron1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1263\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/heron1.jpg\" alt=\"heron\" width=\"934\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/heron1.jpg 934w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/heron1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/heron1-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because this guy was able to fly around the zoo at will, I suspect that it was perhaps a freeloader and not part of the actual exhibits.\u00a0 Two of them would chase each other for a while and then alight in the trees above one of the bird exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pbear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pbear.jpg 934w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pbear-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pbear-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shooting at the SD zoo actually presents quite a few challenges, mostly because of fences and mesh screens and the like between you and the animals.\u00a0 Additionally some of the exhibits are mostly behind glass, as was this one.\u00a0 For the ability to get up close and personal with tigers and polar bears, I&#8217;d rate the Detroit Zoo much better than San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/leopard1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/leopard1.jpg\" alt=\"leopard\" width=\"934\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/leopard1.jpg 934w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/leopard1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/leopard1-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely at the right edge of this image you can make out the outline of the chain link fence through which this photo was taken.\u00a0 Using the right settings I was able to find a spot that worked for this face-on shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because this guy was able to fly around the zoo at will, I suspect that it was perhaps a freeloader and not part of the actual exhibits.\u00a0 Two of them would chase each other for a while and then alight in the trees above one of the bird exhibits. Shooting at the SD zoo actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}