Today we worked at the Zoo. Great place for animals. Many of the animals have large habitat spaces.
We have photographed Giant Pandas in several places already. The panda picture here is from last year. It’s available at our CafePress shop www.cafepress.com/framed_print.
Today we arrived at the zoo 30 minutes after opening at 9:30 am. So, we had about 15 minutes with the female panda outdoors before she went inside. The inside temperature is kept around 65 degrees while outside temp goes up into the 80s. So, the only time to get a more natural setting is early in the day.
The elephants were quite cooperative. Although we have many elephant images from prior zoo shoots, I’ve wanted a closeup to use at CafePress on t shirts. Think I got it today. But, since we use 35mm film, I won’t know for several days.
Tonight we intend to photograph from the Westin Hotel rotating resturant. We have beautiful San Francisco photos from Windows on the World resturant. Hope these turn out as good!
