Ueno Zoo!
I hope you enjoy these photos taken at the Ueno Zoo. What a great day of photography! The weather was gorgeous and the birds and animals were a pleasure to photograph. For many nature photographers, the ultimate challenge and experience is bird flight photography. It is definitely a numbers game as it takes me a lot of shots to get one or two that are really good. Mission accomplished as I think there are some good ones! While most of the animals are in contained areas, the birds in flight are wild birds. Many of those pictures were taken of the Japanese Cormorant. There is a huge pond in the zoo where the Cormorants are building nests. As they flew back and forth, I did my best to capture those birds in flight. So cool! This was my first significant opportunity to use my new 200-800 lens. Wow! For some of the shots, I used that lens with the 2x extender. That took the lens power to 1600! Both of the shots of the two Cormorants together were taken with that combination. As much as I lo