(Part II of the Photo Excursion to the Singapore Zoological Gardens on Tuesday, 29th December 2009)

If you navigated to this post directly, you might want to check out Part I of this post - “Good, Bad & Simply Stunning : The Singapore Zoo (Primates)“.

These images were all captured using the following kit:

• Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• EF 70-200 F/2.8L IS USM
• EF 2x Extender

Unfortunately using the 2x extender dropped my maximum aperture by 2-stops, but given the fast lens, I was still able to shoot at F/5.6 (thankfully) to get decent separation between the animals and the backgrounds.

To heighten your viewing experience, might I recommend you kick off this video to add a background soundtrack while you navigate.

African Lion

I could almost hear the opening bars of “Circle of Life” from The Lion King.

White Bengal Tigers

Now these tigers got into the  news last year for mauling a foreign worker to death.

It’s a shame because these are such magnificent creatures, and the negative schtick (see BBC report and illustration) they received as a result was quite sad.

I has visited their enclosure when I first arrived, but they were quite sleepy – i.e., poor photographic subjects. Just before exiting the zoo, I decided to give them another go, and it was just after feeding time – so they were rather uppity – i.e., great shots!

Waited a long time to get this shot right. Thanks to my subjects for workin’ the camera.

Utterly breathtaking creatures… while I truly enjoyed photographing them, I’m not even sure the photos do them justice.

Final post from this photo excursion: “Reptile World & Beyond” coming soon to byNoelYeo.com

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