Bobcats, Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson AZ

We spent an interesting morning at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum on Thursday. The ASDM is one of my favorite places and certainly on of the few “zoos” I really like. The displays are excellent, with natural looking habitats, and of course it goes well beyond,  as the name suggests,  your ordinary Zoo. It covers the full Sonoran Desert experience… from plants and animals to geology. 

So, while I do not generally like Zoo shots, I can not resist sharing this shot of a couple of Bobcats from the Cat Canyon display at the ASDM. It was taken through a window of thin vertical wires that forms one wall of the habitat…so thin that if you are close to the wires and the cats are a good distance behind them,  they simply disappear in a photograph. It was a pleasure to catch these two bobcats interacting in the cool of the morning before they settled down for the day. 

Sony RX10iii at 600mm equivalent field of view. Programed Auto with – 1/3rd EV exposure compensation. Spot focus and exposure. Processed in PhotoShop Express on my Android tablet.