I had a nice time today with my boyfriend, we went to the National Zoo in DC. I took over 200 images and these were the best ones (i have a few more but i dont have a desire to get into really heavy editing at the moment). Enjoy, descriptions are below each image. Watermarks and signatures ahoy.


One of the zoo's male cheetahs.


Basilisk (i cant spell this) most of my indoor photography was taken at high ISOs because i dont like using flash on animals that are used to the dark.


Cuddlefish, he is waving hello i have another image of him with those same two tenticals crossed like a little gentleman.


Eyelash viper.


Giant Freshwater Prawn. this guy would have put some lobsters ive seen to shame.


Gaboon Viper, he was the BIGGEST gaboon i've ever seen. He was sleeping.


Jelly fish, i can't recall what type.


Red panda. SO CUTE.


Sleepy giant panda.


Vietnamese mossy tree frog. I enjoy this picture.

[WARNING : GRAPHIC ]

The last image was not taken at the zoo, i found this poor humming bird dead at the Glenmont metro station outside of DC. I'm fascinated with birds and i'm sad that my first upclose incounter with a humming bird was with one that was diseased, but i tried to take a few good pictures of him. Hopefully he'll go on to feed other creatures so his death wont be senseless. As far as i can tell, he flew into a concrete pole, but his body seemed to be in very good shape.