Zoo, Paju, South Korea
In 2008 I was teaching English at a government high school in a satellite city of Seoul. The first and second year classes (10th and 11th grades) spent a week o...
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In 2008 I was teaching English at a government high school in a satellite city of Seoul. The first and second year classes (10th and 11th grades) spent a week on a campsite owned by a very big church. There was a small zoo with assorted animals. I was lucky enough to catch this ostrich. (Photo slightly cropped - I wasn't really that close!)
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From 2006 to 2009 I taught English in South Korea. In May 2008 I went with my colleagues and several hundred Korean high school students to a huge church/school camping/convention complex north-west of Seoul (the next thing north-west is the DMZ). On of the site's features was a small zoo, in which one of the animals was this emu (or is it an ostrich?).Time
Early-ish morning, as far as I recall.Lighting
I had no control over the light, except that I could have chosen earlier or later. It just happened to be a clear spring morning.Equipment
Just my compact digital camera, which I can't remember, but which Viewbug tells me was a FinePix A510.Inspiration
It was slightly incongruous to see an emu (or ostrich) in a school camp complex.Editing
I do very little post-processing of any photo. I used the general 'enhance' function of iPhoto (now 'Photos') and cropped from landscape, which showed too much of the building at the back left and the sky at the back right, to portrait, which focuses on the emu and accentuates its elongation.In my camera bag
My camera! I travel light. I only own one compact camera (a different one now than the one I took this on) and three tripods, which I obviously don't carry round with me.Feedback
Be patient! Emus, ostriches and cassowaries wander around. A lot. Also, experiment with angles and zoom. This photo, taken over the fence, is obviously more effective than one showing the fence and the bird at its real size. I wasn't that close!
