The running joke between Josh and the rest of us is that the North Carolina zoo needs to fund an expedition to locate their animals. Indeed, many were missing or sleeping somewhere hidden throughout the day. This ostrich, however, was more than happy to pose right up against the barrier for us, looking for all the world like she was smiling. Yeah, I know, her beak can't change shape, but it looked like it. I captured this with my 75-300 lens and a relatively high ISO of 1600. I'm glad the noise on this shot stayed down, as it is a quick way to ruin detail shots.
I recently shot with an actual roll of Kodak Professional Ektar 100 film, and while I loved the results, I discovered that it is an expensive film to shoot and develop. I also wasn't happy with how overblown some pinks in flowers got. That being said, I also do have a digital emulation of this film. I captured this on a Sony A7R through a Canon 75-300mm lens, at F/4. I love using that lens for macro work, but I do plan to eventually replace it. I captured this at JC Raulston Arboretum.
I have many fond childhood memories of capturing Tiger Swallowtails in bug catchers to admire them, then let them go. As a child, I was really big into collecting insects. However, we also tried to let many go before they expired. It was never my goal to kill them, that I remember. But I used to see these yellow creatures fluttering around all the bushes outside our apartment. Nowadays, I rarely see them. I saw a few in one day while out testing a new camera, and got this perfectly timed shot of the butterfly feeding. There's no lens EXIF data, because I shoot through an adapter with Canon lenses.
