Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:31 pm

This is a 60 acre park located in central Kansas, a day is set aside each year to invite disabled kids with their family to free admission, the kids are supplied with t'shirts, stuffed animals, also food & entertainment

http://www.rollinghillswildlife.com/index.html

Some photos from today,

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:32 pm

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:34 pm

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:35 pm

Steve

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:30 am

And some of the plants,

Steve

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:57 am

Nice, thanks for sharing.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:52 pm

What a great facility for families; nice it's nearby.
Dumb question, but are animals housed in barns during winter?

Good variety of plants, too.
Quite the stand of bamboo!

Barb

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:40 pm

Barb, I'm hoping my Bamboo does as well as theirs !

There are heated buildings for the animals, here's a couple.

and a few more photos

Steve

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:25 pm

lions and tigers and rhinos .... oh my. looks like a very nice zoo and park. now that our kids are older, we have not been to a zoo for probably 10 years. Just put the zoo on our summer "to do" list. THANKS for sharing.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:16 pm

Great pictures.
What a gorgeous facility, with a good selection of easier-care plants.
Somebody put a lot of thought into that.

So, Kent, did you go to the zoo?

Barb

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:01 pm

A couple photos from this year's event,

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:03 pm

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:05 pm

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:08 pm

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:32 pm

What a collection they have!

National Geographic's gonna come knockin' on your door soon if you keep snapping pics of that quality!

Thanks for posting them.
Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:16 pm

lucky1 wrote:What a collection they have!

National Geographic's gonna come knockin' on your door soon if you keep snapping pics of that quality!

Barb

I totally agree!
Great shots!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the first pic with the clouds and lake-brilliant!

The animal shots look like your in Africa.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:02 pm

Knnn wrote:

Great picture fo the lion...What camera do you use??

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:03 pm

Knnn wrote:

Great picture fo the lion...What camera do you use??

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:47 pm

Thanks for the comments

(I'm getting better photos, but still have a ways to go

Mike ~ Those were with a Nikon D300S, and a 20 year old Tamron 70-300mm lens.
Was shooting through the cage bars, so there is some "ghosting" around the edges.

The full size versions are over here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveks/
(most on page two)

Steve

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:39 am

Boy
I'm glad he didn't ask you that again

How do you get pics of the lions,tigers(guess they didn't have bears?) with no fence or bars,are they just out in the open,
can you pet them?

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:17 am

Jim, They have bears too, just haven't got to those photos yet

The lions & tigers were behind bars, so it was a combination of shooting through the little squares and cropping, also using a telephoto lens and defocusing the bars out of the frame helped.

Steve

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:19 am

That's cool!
I figured you didn't pet them,it takes 2 hands to operate a camera(decent one)
as far as I know

Still,it does look like your right up next to them-very pretty place.