Post your favorite (or best) zoo pictures!

[ChadS]

@Kombi Wow, talk about pushing the IS on that lens: 1/30 @300mm on a 1.6 crop sensor. I'm amazed it came out as sharp as it did! There must not have been very much light even though it looks like daytime - nasty overcast? On my T2i I'm hard-pressed to find the noise in my shots at ISO 400 - it's really no worse than 200 imo. But I've got to give it to you, I can see no evidence of the chain links.

[Kombi]

@Kombi Wow, talk about pushing the IS on that lens: 1/30 @300mm on a 1.6 crop sensor. I'm amazed it came out as sharp as it did! There must not have been very much light even though it looks like daytime - nasty overcast? On my T2i I'm hard-pressed to find the noise in my shots at ISO 400 - it's really no worse than 200 imo. But I've got to give it to you, I can see no evidence of the chain links.

Yes sky was very overcast at time of picture (like the sky behind the mountain goat) , the mountain lion was also under a bit of a shelter in the shade I used a bit of 'fill light' in picasa to see the image.
for comparison
ISO 100, Exposure 1/250 sec, Aperture 5.6
ISO 3200, Exposure 1/400 sec, Aperture 7.1
ISO 100, Exposure 1/60 sec, Aperture 5.6
ISO 100, Exposure 1/30 sec, Aperture 5.6
link to larger images on picasa with full exif