Shortest day of the year in the zoo, you can understand there’s not much light to go around! It should’ve been a sunny day but all it takes is a thin cloud in the horizon where the sun is, and you need to push your tolerance limits with high ISO to get any decent shutter speeds. It figures that the action is fast and fun at the wolverine enclosure, so nearly all my pictures suffer from motion blur (or camera shake blur or missed focus blur). But when the subject is standing still, the awesome Vibration Reduction of the Mega-Tamron delivers. Getting sharp pictures with 1/40 at 500mm is very impressive, even if I was leaning my elbows on the railing.

Apart from that small cloud in the front of the sun, it was blue skies all around so I had huge problems with the white balance. In the end I decided to make everything black and white because the colours just didn’t work and you know how it is in the winter, how much colour is there anyway?

I heard some happy news as well – I spoke with the keeper and found out that the lynx cub didn’t die after all, but it came down on its own after the sheet metal was removed. The lynx was missing in the enclosure because it was moved to the Borås Zoo.

And now the days will get longer again, while it feels like winter hasn’t even started yet. The forecast says that it will snow tomorrow, a pretty please?