Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f8
ISO: 200
Lens: 70-300 @300 mm
The advantage of being alone is that I can head out whenever I want, but I was reluctant, so I dragged my friends who were just trying to get out jet lag to practice some sunset shots on the pacific coast. We headed towards Santa Cruz, didn’t find anything interesting and started driving back towards northern side in search of some beaches with no crowd around. After finding one and spending some time out there, one of my friend suddenly had this idea of heading out to Solvang, stay overnight and then head back home the next day. In a min, we were all in agreement with that crazy idea and had a ball of a time. It was more like a mini road trip. No agenda, just driving around to find some locations to take pictures 🙂
One of those places we stopped at was Ostrich Land. A place which is famous for feeding these lovely birds. Kids would love the place as they can get very close to the birds…of course taking all necessary precaution not to get bitten by them.
I used the 70-300 telephoto for these pics as the lens gives a good shallow depth of field which helps in blurring out the boring backgrounds. Here is another close-up view of one of them:
The sad part of that visit was seeing packets of “ostrich meat” in the freezer. It just makes you realize that its nothing but an Ostrich Farm.