Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Galveston

Took a few pictures... not the greatest. Too many people were around to find a good spot. Stupid spring break.


Nice and Zoo, Pt. 2

More zoo stuff.








Houston Zoo

My new camera (D90) came yesterday, so of course I had to go find somewhere to try it out. Thankfully, I get into the Houston Zoo for free! Initial reports on the new camera: not having a dedicated ISO button is a bummer. However, the ISO performance on my old camera sucked, so it's not like I used it anyways. On this camera, ISO performance is overwhelmingly better. I refused to go above ISO800 on my D200. On this, many of the pictures below (the reptiles) were taken at ISO1600, and just look fantastic. Even ISO3200 was acceptable to me in some situations.

So, enjoy some animals. First, we have birds. Who doesn't like birds!





This isn't a bird at all. Or any animal. I liked it though.



Never fear, citizen, the animals are back! Some little kid called this a baby Rhino. It was rather humorous to me.




Something old....

I was going through old photos of mine and came across this, and really liked it. I took this ages ago, a camping trip back in July 2009. O...