One of my Favourite Poems and Animals

[Tronhard]

EOS 5DsR, EF 100-400LII@ 263mm, f/5.6, 1/320sec, ISO-500

The Tyger  By William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger 

[Tintype_18]

Zoo? I see that you are utilizing the finer points of B&W photography. We tend to get in a rut, thinking everything has to be in color. My complements.

[Tronhard]

Hi John:
Thank you!   Yes, zoo at the moment.  It's what I can get to, given my health status. I suspect my days of overseas travel are over, and while I love macro mammal predators, they are not exactly thick on the ground here in NZ.   For me, the challenge is to take them out of their confinements and try to give them back their freedom, even if only in an artistic sense.

I like greyscale (I differentiate that from B&W, but that's just me), as it is much more inducive to concentrating us on the character of the subject.   If you can find one, I strongly recommend a book by the fabulous Brazilian photographer, Sabastio Salgado: "Genesis".   He had a long history of documenting humanity in distress and it got to the stage it was making him seriously ill.  So, he turned to photographing nature in his preferred genre: greyscale and the images are stunning.