It just wouldn’t be a trip to the zoo without some pink Flamingos.
I have some sort of weird obsession with photographing flamingos. Their enclosure at the zoo allows you to get pretty close to them, so I just shot a ton of different images and hoped some would work. The hardest part was holding up the camera for an extended period. My new lens is about the heaviest I would ever attempt to hand hold (3 1/2 pounds) and I was really feeling it at the flamingo pen. It’s a good thing I lift weights on a regular basis.
I really love it when the flamingos contort into these funky S shapes. I wish there wasn’t another bird behind the one on the right, I think it would have made a stronger image with a cleaner background. But again, you can’t really control for everything. I managed to get a number of keepers, so I’m not complaining.