{"id":5690,"date":"2011-06-27T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/27\/steelykid-at-the-zoo\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:35:02","slug":"steelykid-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/27\/steelykid-at-the-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelyKid at the Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we took SteelyKid to the Bronx Zoo. It was kind of hot, and she got a little over-tired by the end, but it had a lot of amazingly cute moments, too. And, unlike Sunday&#8217;s trip to the beach, I brought my camera and shot a couple hundred pictures of various things. Including this shot of SteelyKid on Grandpa&#8217;s shoulders at the start of the day:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-e21769f7eb59153be9d2e88e9d23d83e-sm_grandpas_shoulders.jpg\" alt=\"i-e21769f7eb59153be9d2e88e9d23d83e-sm_grandpas_shoulders.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a keeper, all right. What was she looking at? Well, this happy couple:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-eda31d27fafdc420bae04579a929668a-sm_female_lion.jpg\" alt=\"i-eda31d27fafdc420bae04579a929668a-sm_female_lion.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello, large predatory cat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-80ecd37693fff488c805b94c350a7ec3-sm_male_lion.jpg\" alt=\"i-80ecd37693fff488c805b94c350a7ec3-sm_male_lion.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And hello to you, too, Aslan.<\/p>\n<p>(These could probably be improved further with some slightly more sophisticated image processing&#8211; the sunny bits in the background lose a lot of detail when I bump the levels up enough to make the foreground objects look right. I have a big book on digital photo processing, now (a birthday gift), and these will give me some good material to work with as I figure that stuff out. In my copious free time.)<\/p>\n<p>(Also, these were shot with the 55-250 mm zoom lens I bought last fall, which totally justified the expense on this one zoo visit. I got some really nice pictures that would&#8217;ve been completely impossible with the kit lens. It made shooting people a little awkward, but I still got some good SteelyKid shots, as well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we took SteelyKid to the Bronx Zoo. It was kind of hot, and she got a little over-tired by the end, but it had a lot of amazingly cute moments, too. And, unlike Sunday&#8217;s trip to the beach, I brought my camera and shot a couple hundred pictures of various things. Including this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/27\/steelykid-at-the-zoo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SteelyKid at the Zoo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}