Giraffes must be the coolest animals on the planet. At the Houston Zoo they are now in the African Forest exhibit, which includes a place for visitors to feed them ($5 for three pieces of lettuce). We weren't able to get that in, but did manage to get some shots of these guys up close.We were walking along the edge of the enclosure when I saw this character reaching over for a blade of grass. The photo was snapped in haste, so had to rotate and do some other things to make it presentable. By sheer luck the shadows happened to parallel the angle of its neck...something I didn't even notice until post-capture.
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Nikon D300s, AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200 mm F/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
ISO-200, f/9, 1/320 sec
Photo taken 02/12/11 by Jim Mahood
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