Dartmoor Zoological Park

[AndyMulhearn]

The place made famous by the Matt Damon/Scarlett Johansson film "We Bought a Zoo" which is just outside Plymouth off the A38 heading towards Exeter. Today we had a serenade from the wolves and all of the big cats were out on show. My particular favourites were the two Siberian Amur Tigers and the Southern Cheetah who were all happy to pose for everyone, although in this case everyone was myself and my wife and four other people - not really a big audience.

Here's a selection shot with my 7D2 and a variety of lens combinations - 70-200 with 1.4 TC, bare 400L and 400L with 1.4 TC. Still no noise reduction applied and a range of ISOs up to 16,000...

3B1A8988 by andymulhearn, on Flickr

3B1A9011 by andymulhearn, on Flickr

3B1A9029 by andymulhearn, on Flickr

And the now obligatory 7D2 high ISO shot, this time an Agouti shot at 16,000 with my 400L/1.4 tc.

3B1A9037 by andymulhearn, on Flickr

3B1A9043 by andymulhearn, on Flickr

And my wife was good enough to take a shot of the Tigir enclosure for me - it’s completely open so no wire or glass between you and the cats

Tiger enclosure by celia.mulhearn, on Flickr

[AndyMulhearn]

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Updated. It just works this morning.

[the black fox]

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Super set there Andy ,camera looking good

[AndyMulhearn]

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Cheers Jeff, yes it does

The second to last shot is an Agouti and was shot at ISO 16,000. Usable at this size though I wouldn't want to use it any larger without more work and even then, not much larger.

[Parsen66]

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A nice set Andy, particularly the full face at high ISO.

Really cements that I WANT ONE PLEASE

[Tigger]

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nice set Andy - and yes I agree with Alan the full face one

PS Glad you managed to get images posted

[AndyMulhearn]

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Thanks Alan, you know you want to

Ian, it seemed to work fine at 6:10 this morning, though to be fair I'd rather have been in bed than downstairs getting ready for work

[Dave s]

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Nice set Andy ,visited here a few years back it's a good place for big cats did you manage to get any of the jaguar and lynx ?

[AndyMulhearn]

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Dave, we saw the lynx - a wonderful cat. The jaguar sadly died a while back and the Cage is now full of wolves.

[jimsphotography]

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Nice work Andy
James

[tesarver]

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A very nice set Andy

Tom

[Dave s]

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Date, we saw the lynx - a wonderful cat. The jaguar sadly died a while back and the Cage is now full of wolves.

Ah that's a shame ,
Would be interested n seeing the wolf shots if you took any.

[AndyMulhearn]

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A very nice set Andy

Cheers Tom

[AndyMulhearn]

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Ah that's a shame ,
Would be interested n seeing the wolf shots if you took any.

Yes, we saw the Jaguar when we went last time. A definite bruiser he was too, looked like the big cat equivalent of an old prize fighter.

The wolves were either behind nets or having a kip on their perch so no shots of them I'm afraid.

[Bill53]

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Great set Andy, like the first one especially.

Bill.