No kidding! You have to have a solid tripod so a zoo like that is a good place to set up and let the animals move as you are above the fences in most cases. I did enjoy it but it is so much work. I've gotten some good shots of flying ducks with my 300 and 200 lenses which are far easier to use and pan with even with the fully gimballed tripod head. I'll post some of them.

I thought I was in Seattle on a rainy, foggy day for a while! Just seeing the Bay of Fundy had been my goal and after taking photos of all the lighthouses up the coast of Maine in clear weather this was different.... glad you enjoyed.

If you choose to be a Luddite then that's your choice. You just like stirring up a fuss reading all this it seems to me and aren't serious about much of what you type....just saying. Will quit following as this is more like sport for you than giving a hippie hoot about what anyone has to say. You are, I'm sure, enjoying this.

If you want to go back to film, do so and enjoy it. If not, so be it.

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Really pretty birds and great detail in the two birds in the foreground and the reflections. Is this the original image or did you crop it to this? In the world of "wishes" which does not always happen I get the feeling that if the photo were taller with more of the birds leaving in the background included and post processing cropped closer to the sides of the two foreground birds but taller including more of the fading out of focus birds leaving in the background, more portrait shape than landscape, that it would have been an even more interesting capture for the viewer's eye in the world of "I wish I'd gotten that in the photo!" I enjoyed seeing it and am not picking, just wondering how cropping could maximize what's already enjoyable. Good job!

They sure are annoying to see. Most photo processing software has a watermark/copyright function where you can do this but try and keep it out of the image as it is distracting visually is my view....

glad you enjoyed. we saw 35 big horn sheep as we fished the first day from the drift boat down from the high hills for water. this was september, 2016

Yes, did all that and with tripod. I just found it awkward and difficult to get consistently crisp and clear shots with it. Perhaps I'm just happier and more used to hand holding my D4 with my 80-200mm or the 28-70mm lens as a style of image capturing which works better with me.

I tried fixed setups from rock solid tripods and places, remote releases, higher shutter speeds and isos and all the rest but my batting average for the lens just wasn't high enough for what I'm used to.

Hence, it's in the box in the camera cabinet.

Clearly, I need to give mine another chance as I did not get that clarity out of it.

those boats sure do fly. My zr-1 is 1991 and the engine is fantastic...like what is looking like will be in the mid engine 2018 corvette...lt-5 designed by Lotus and it never quits anywhere on the torque curve.... All aluminum block, dohc, tuned to between 453 and 500 hp...flies.

Thanks for the comments. Hard not to get a few good shots in such great surroundings....Washington state is where I grew up until high school and is still "home" in many ways. I miss the mountains of Colorado and Washington state.

I don't think you can get much further East in America than Maine's Quoddy Head light which looks out through the mist at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy....watermen work it with their boats going past out into the Atlantic every day including rainy, foggy days like the day I was there with camera.......Next stop, Canada! Methinks there are a lot of foggy days there. the photographer got shot by the marble so proclaiming the site....by another visitor with my camera.

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I spent several hours at the local open zoo west of Richmond, Va trying to get good images with the Tamron 150-600 lens. I got a few but sort of wish I'd bought the Sigma version of the lens. I rarely use it now as it is so much work to use with heavy tripod, remote releases, etc. Even then I never thought I got the sharpness of good Nikkor lenses I'm used to. Here are a few of those images for your comments on crispness. As I look at them again they are pretty crisp. Maybe I was just too critical. Your views on these? Kumbali and Kago, his dog pal who live together was shot through a glass window out of necessity.

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Those are very nice images. I used my then Nikon d7000 with mine then when I got the fx D4 tried again and still did not get the crispness that you got. Maybe I need to try again. I did get a few nice images but nothing as good as these. Nice work.

I own one for the Nikon dslr and was disappointed with the results with it. It simply is nowhere near as clear as the lenses I use from nikon. I don't have the sigma but wish I'd bought it to try instead. It now sits in a box until I get around to selling it and my old cameras, d90, etc. on Ebay. Wasted the money. No matter how well I set up the lens just isn't as crisp as the cost would indicate.