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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 543316" data-attributes="member: 13090">It's my Power Animal.&nbsp; (HA!)In all seriousness, [USER=12541]@Roy1961[/USER] is correct... We have the Safari Park here in Escondido, CA which is the &quot;sister park&quot; of the San Diego Zoo (we locals still call by its old name, however, the &quot;Wild Animal Park&quot;). What makes this park unusual, if not unique(?), is that the animals are not kept in cages, per se, but instead are housed in huuuge, open-space enclosures that replicate the animals natural habitat. Since there are typically no bars between you and the animals, you can get really good, clean shots like the shot of the eagle. In this particular shot a handler was... well... handling the bird and giving a lecture so I was able to shoot from about six or eight feet away. I could have gotten closer but I didn't feel like shouldering my way through the crowd for those few extra feet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 543316, member: 13090"] It's my Power Animal. (HA!) In all seriousness, [USER=12541]@Roy1961[/USER] is correct... We have the Safari Park here in Escondido, CA which is the "sister park" of the San Diego Zoo (we locals still call by its old name, however, the "Wild Animal Park"). What makes this park unusual, if not unique(?), is that the animals are not kept in cages, [I]per se[/I], but instead are housed in huuuge, open-space enclosures that replicate the animals natural habitat. Since there are typically no bars between you and the animals, you can get really good, clean shots like the shot of the eagle. In this particular shot a handler was... well... handling the bird and giving a lecture so I was able to shoot from about six or eight feet away. I could have gotten closer but I didn't feel like shouldering my way through the crowd for those few extra feet. [/QUOTE]

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