Not much photographic technique to report here or insights – the primary challenges were:
1) Getting close enough to the bars of the cages to defocus them, but
2) Not getting so close that the tiger can stick their paw through and steal your lens (and/or flesh!) from you.
They are such gorgeous creatures though, aren’t they?
Last month I had gotten lucky looking for tickets for the New England Aquarium’s whale watching cruises – there was a sunset cruise listed on the ticketing site, but it wasn’t advertised on the Aquarium’s website itself! Probably as a result of that the boat was fairly empty, hardly had to jockey for position at all, and I’m pretty pleased with a couple of the images I got:
