All the shots below were taken with the 7D, 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM and many of them with the 1.4x extender. I won't bother recapping the exposure settings on each shot but you can assume that everything was shot wide open: f/2.8 without the extender and f/4 with it. Some of the lower light or indoor shots I would bump the ISO to 200 or 400, but all the sunny shots are ISO 100.
I kept an even dozen of my best shots, and my favourite three are at the end. Enjoy!
Pileated Woodpecker
Peacock Plumage
Snowy Owl
Amur Leopard
Kangaroo Family
Stellar Sea Eagle in Flight - I hate the chainlink background, but what can you do?
English Sparrow
Stalking Vulture
Mallard in Green Water
And now my favourite three shots of the day:
Growling Mountain Lion
Flamingo at Rest
Lift-Off - Incredibly lucky timing on this one
When you compare this with visit to the zoo last fall, I think you can see a difference in my subject selection, composition, and post processing abilities. That's roughly 8 or 9 months of learning. In three weeks or so I'll be visiting family in Ontario and we will be visiting the Metro Toronto Zoo which will provide a greater variety of opportunities to shoot, but I'm happy with this warm-up visit to our little zoo here in Winnipeg.
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