Lemurs and Mongooses (geese?)

[Famous Graham]

Add them to Chimps and Penguins as fun critters to shoot. Err..photograph

(after the aborted attempts to get to RIAT I decided to visit my old local mini-zoo, Beale Park, in an attempt to actually USE the camera gear I'd brought down south)





(There was a biplane overhead )







I thought only Meerkats did this





Owls are quite fun too





Winked at by a bird!



The rain was crap

[F_M-R2]

Great pics graham! Love zoos myself...try to get to one whatever city I'm visiting. Only got the photography bug lately so yet to bring the camera along. One quick question, how do you border your pictures like that? Is there a quick way to do it in Photoshop or something? Some photos are really finished nicely with a boder.

[bulb763]

They are all lovely shots The third-from-last and especially the last are very good - has there been much processing done to them?

Also, the first owl shot is just right

[Famous Graham]

Re borders, I set up an action in Photoshop but essentially all it is, is

Create new layer
Increase canvas size by 5 pixels
Fill layer with black
Put layer to back

Create new layer
Increase canvas size by 2 pixels
Fill layer with white
Put layer to back


Create new layer
Increase canvas size by 20 pixels
Fill layer with black
Put layer to back

Not much processing, no. Maybe a slight contrast boost, or saturation depending on the pic (I fiddled with the red channel to emphasize the orange on the lemurs' eyes for example).