Yes sorry to take some of the magic out of the pictures I've taken by admitting I have not been on safari in foreign lands but have in fact simply visited the local zoo.

However I did get some very nice pictures and I did have a very nice time, and I also feel a lot of creative frustration was relieved by changing the subject matter a touch. I've been going round in circles for months on end shooting the same local places and it was brilliant to take photos of things I don't see so often.

So Dudley Zoo is only a small zoo as zoo's go, and naturally there are some photos that would be better done with birds etc outside of cages and hence some photos simply couldn't work out. But the animals I could photograph effectively have been gathered and placed onto deviantArt here. Some animals seem to like to pose while others are more lively and hard to shoot. It made for good practice.

Here is a small selection of some of my favourite photos from the zoo shoot and I hope you enjoy them and much as I enjoyed taking them(Please see gallery for more)