Bristol Zoo Part 4 - Lorikeets

Dissertation writing is getting in the way of more enjoyable things like editing photos, so please forgive the long delays between posts. Another four weeks and it'll all be over and I'll have four months to do nothing by photography.

More from Bristol Zoo here. They have a 'Feed the Lorikeets' enclosure, where you can go in with little cups of liquid feed and the minute you enter the birds swarm all over you.

We went to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta yesterday so lots of pictures of that to come soon.

Bristol Zoo Part 3 - Meerkats

Apologies that it's been so long since I posted here, it's been very busy recently and I just haven't really had time to edit photos. Here are some more from Bristol Zoo from the meerkat house. More to come soon, including lemurs and pictures from Bletchley Park, so stay tuned!

Bristol Zoo Part 2 - Jock

A couple of portraits of Jock, the Bristol Zoo silverback gorilla looking distinctly disgruntled.

Bristol Zoo - Butterfly House

I took a great trip to Bristol Zoo on Saturday. Had to spend some time sheltering from the rain in the butterfly house which gave me plenty of time to concentrate on photographing the butterflies. Loads of different species, farmed fair trade in Costa Rica. It was quite dark so had to use a very high ISO but I've been really impressed with the noise reduction in CS5.

I managed to take around 10GB of photos on the day so it's going to take me a while to get them all up, but stay posted for lions, gorillas, meerkats and more...

Garden Gates

Walking back from the centre of town this afternoon I walked down some really varied and pretty streets. It strikes me how different Bristol is from Manchester. For starters there are these horrible things called hills (living in Cambridge and then Manchester, hills are something of an oddity). But the city is also much greener, the houses and buildings are much more varied and individual and the whole places just seems to have more individuality and soul (apologies to any Mancunians reading this...) and I'm really looking forward to settling here permanently...

Cabot Circus - Phone Pictures

I got a new phone this weekend and took the opportunity to test the camera in it in Cabot Circus. I'm pleasantly surprised by the results - not razor sharp but still passable and much better than my old phone.