This past Sunday was a perfect day for taking photographs at the Denver Zoo. It was sunny and 61 degrees, warm enough to be comfortable in a jacket, and cool enough for the animals to want to stay in the sun, making for better photographs. I was even able to take an outside photograph of the orangutan seen on the left for the first time in recent memory. Of course, on the other hand, he was high up on top of a tree and far from the fence - in other words, a very uncooperative subject . Thank God for Photoshop and the cropping tool. If only Ansel Adams had had that, he would have been even more famous.
I was also able to take a photograph of the elusive mandrill, seen in the photograph on the right. Every time I come to the zoo, it seems like this damn creature hides in the shadows or turns his back to me, showing me his hairless behind. Not a pretty sight. This time, however, he evidently slipped up. By the way, taking photographs of the mandrills, the black crested macaque, as well as the gorillas, too, is not easy, because they are mostly behind glass. There are reflections, hand prints, and other distortions that prevent a decent shot. I propose that the zoo has a "camera day," when anyone with a camera would be allowed into the cages to take photographs. It works at baseball stadiums, so why not at the zoo? Write to management immediately about this.
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