The owl

This is one of those images that really captures the personality of the owl for me. The stern stare is almost like a disapproving parent.

I like that the background bokeh mixed with the two tone colours to really of sets the owl from its environment. All these things made it a keeper.

This lens quickly became my go-to lens for zoo trips. The crispness of the images and the colour it produces is really impressive, matched with the extended focal length and rather good VR provides a lens that rarely leaves your camera during zoo trips. I do have a 70-300mm Sigma which I like a lot as it has the ability to do macro, however it is about twice the weight and doesn’t have VR so it has mostly been used to take photos of flowers and such with a tripod.