It's been a great day, I've been to the local Whipsnade Wild Animal Park or zoo for short. I took a limited number of pictures, around eight rolls of film worth, some 250+ shots; hello storage another 5GB to swallow. Even though the lions were doing what they do best, resting, there were some nice pictures to be had and the usual technique of putting the lens up to the glass with a big lens hood on the front lets you shoot as if there is no glass there. Quite a strange thing when the lions are chewing over the bones of some meat and they happen to be around 3 metres away.
Duly refreshed from the day to the zoo I remembered that the TV guide had said Big Cat live was due back TV on BBC1 from Sunday. If you have access to this then watch it for i'm sure you'll find something interesting. I found the website is already active on the BBC page and you can see the scale of the production - as you'd think it's a bit more than a few presenters a film crew or two and some sound engineers. Check out the number of tentss they have at the base camp for this production... http://www.bbc.co.uk/bigcat/video/ and follow the Camp Report 1 - camp tour video.
They have a lion kill on webcam to watch - possibly the first ever capture of this on a webcam. I'm getting the feeling that the TV coverage will be as impressive as ever and make me want to go back to the Masai Mara in Kenya again soon myself.
Ah well back to sorting out the zoo pictures and some imagination for now.
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