Sarfari Truck at NC Zoo

When I was at the zoo, I saw a truck that is used to take workers to visit the animals. It was one of the Safari trucks and was parked in the African Elephant area.There are other safari trucks more open used to take people in designated tour areas for a fee with a zoo employee to get closer to the animals. Sometimes this can be a photographer safari. I have never been able to get an image of a rhinoceros up close at this zoo. iPhone 6 native, edited in PSE 11. I do not have a telephoto lens for my iPhone but I did take other pictures at the zoo with my Nikon P600 (hi end compact camera) which has a 50x zoom.  

Parrot - Peek-A-Boo

At the NC zoo, Asheboro, NC.  I tried to capture a colorful parrot image in the Aviary. I was probably about 6 feet away. So, I could not really get closer and a sharper image with the iPhone.  At least the parrot was not in a fenced in area or caged. The parrot was more interested in eating and on the move.  I got this image and thought the pose reminded me of playing peek-a-boo.  To make the parrot the main subject I had to crop out a lot of foilage.  Recently I got an inexpensive telephoto lens for the iPhone from Photojojo but I have not had time to work with it yet.  Stay tuned for those images later. Only minor editing in PSE 11. My new camera's battery was exhausted and at this point did not want to invest in a spare until I know if I am keeping.  Macro shots have not been explored.