Into the wild
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately […]
to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived […]
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear […]
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life […]
to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…
(Walden, Henry David Thoreau)
Mine is longer
The giant Anax imperator
The tall Giraffa reticulata
A scary Struthio camelus
The largest living equid: Equus grevyi
The rare Ciconia nigra
The always up standing Suricata suricatta
Pictures shot in the new Savanna area in Zoo Zurich, Switzerland. Click each picture to zoom in
All what you miss with a light polluted sky
Make the invisible visible: 30 second long exposure of Zurich night sky with the fast wide angle Sigma 14 mm f/1.8
Facing West, do you see Corona Borealis and Arcturus (Bootes)?
The milky way above Zurich city, light pollution high to very high – level (SQM) up to 18.89 mag./arc sec2
Facing North, do you see Ursa major, Ursa minor, Perseus, Giraffe, Cassiopea and much more ?
Jupiter and its 4 moons, do you see all the 4 of them? (shot with a 70-200 mm objective)
Facing West, do you see the Andromeda constellation and its galaxy?
If you did not see the constellations, click here 🙂 Wide angle pictures shot with SIGMA 14 mm f / 1.8, 30 seconds, ISO 1250. Jupiter shot with 200 mm f / 2.8, 0.4 second, ISO 400. Click each picture to zoom in.
The savanna next door
The entry gate to the new Lewa- Savanna region at Zoo Zürich
Giraffes and impalas
A top deck safari bus at the east end
(fake) gigantic baobab trees
Sustainable tourism
Stripes and squares. Pictures shot in the new Savanna area in Zoo Zurich, Switzerland. Click each picture to zoom in





























