Zoo station

A morning trip to Khao Kheow Open Zoo. The hundred baht entrance fee, plus fifty baht per car, is excellent value and we spent several happy hours waiting in vain for animals to strike the required pose. I took the Olympus 75mm and the Panasonic 100-300mm and they both provided good service.

When we stopped to photograph the monkeys, they climbed all over my truck. This one has the look of “wide boy”, ready to sell you a dodgy stereo or steal your girlfriend.

Comments 🔗

2012-11-06 | genuinej says

Love the last pic. Self portrait?

2012-11-06 | Robin Parmar says

stellar work!

2012-11-06 | MarcusBurtBKK says

Some great snaps there, love the characters of the Meerkat, Giraffe, and Orangutan, nice work!

2012-11-06 | Spike says

Looks like more of a Spanky to me. You are definitely a Meerkat.

2012-11-06 | Grant says

Well done old chap, very very nice indeed, great stuff! Those Meerkats even look way cuter than Yourcats…

2012-11-06 | Jan says

brilliant !!

2012-11-07 | Barry says

Brilliant indeed.

2012-11-07 | Spanky says

My eyes would be slightly more glassy but it’s close enough.

2012-11-07 | Dude says

These are some very nice photos! I really like the framing and I’m impressed by the colors. Did you use auto whitbalance? Did you shoot jpg? My GX1’s AWB seems quite accurate most times but under bright sunlight color-temperature is a little too cold for my taste. Your photos don’t seem to have a blue cast. Did you remove it or was it never present in the first place?

2012-11-07 | Pete says

9 replies so far and no-one’s even mentioned Achtung Baby. Your talent at naming posts seems to be wasted. Some readers actually seem to think that it’s all about the photograpic content!

Nice pictures, by the way.

2012-11-07 | Spike says

I always shoot RAW with AWB. Didn’t have to change the white balance on any of these.

2012-11-07 | Spike says

Great album, perfect title, don’t like Zoo Station as a track. You’re so Cruel though… “She wears my love like a see-through dress”, I think we’ve all been there.

2012-11-07 | Spike says

I’ve told them you said that; don’t come round expecting to leave with an intact jugular.

2012-11-07 | Grant says

Spanky’s got a ’loyalty’ card, every tenth one free…

2012-11-07 | Grant says

Are your lips always that out-of-focus?

2012-11-07 | Grant says

I shall wear a scarf of finest high country carbon-fibre, Merino ain’t got the tensile strength. Tell the cats that any attempted attack on the person may result in an impromptu pet shampoo…

2012-11-07 | Spanky says

Waiting for the San Miguel Brewery to give me a loyalty card. Bastards.

2012-11-07 | Grant says

Told you they were weasels…

2012-11-08 | Spanky says

Not weasel piss!

2012-11-09 | david says

What PP did you do to make the pictures look so sharp? Or is the 75mm lens that good?

2012-11-09 | Spike says

It’s that good; although I usually pass my images through The Tweak: 2012_01_the-tweak

But with the 75mm I apply very little sharpening because they are so sharp to start with; it is the second best lens I have ever used; and the best one cost me $5,000.

2012-11-09 | Spanky says

When you sell your inferior GX1 and buy the superior EOS M you can use that 300mm Canon monstrosity with the fast focusing adapter that Canon sells.

2012-11-09 | Spike says

“When”… the GX1 has already been sold and the beautiful EOS M has been in my hands for three hours now. Sadly it has yet to focus successfully on anything; but even the blurry shots confirm that the four year old sensor is shit. Still, it is easy to learn the controls; because there aren’t any. $800 well spent I reckon.

2012-11-09 | Spanky says

Good on you for seeing that Canon has the superior product! Don’t worry about the focus issue. I’m sure they will release a firmware update in a few years to address it.

2012-11-25 | david says

Wow! You sold your GX1? What are you gonna do with all these M43 lenses? And where is your EOS M review?

2012-11-25 | Spike says

You need to reset your sarcasm sensor, it appears to be broken. I wouldn’t take an EOS-M if you offered it to me for free.

2012-11-25 | david says

Lol, I wasn’t that sharp this morning :-)

I am still happy with my X-100 and intend to buy a X-E1 with the 35mm f1.4 within a couple of hours/days/weeks (watching those ebay auctions). Will add the 56mm f1.4 early next year when the release it.

2012-11-25 | Spike says

The XE-1 looks like a lot better deal than the Pro. I have no intention of buying an RX1….

2012-11-25 | Grant says

With you there Spike, not that fussed on Mazdas meself either…