Special guests at S.Vicente City Zoo

Luiz Carlos Santos Jr ©The São Vicente Zoo was scheduled to re-open on the 30th of april, a day before our national holiday celebrating "the labour day".
With the intention to warm up our equipment, just 30 days before our departure to Africa, me and two mates of mine decided to visit the Zoo and why not to take some pictures of our local neighbours.

By getting there, we were told that Zoo was not yet open and therefore no one could go inside, but, we were in our luck day and I manage to get one of the biologists in charge for the animals who gave us the opportunity to get inside and to have the whole park exclusively for us, in other words, to take hundreds of photos, and I tell you, we did.

Luiz Carlos Santos Jr ©
We had the opportunity to go freely inside restricted areas and off course with all secure procedures, we were allowed to be quite close with the animals, including lions and the hippo. 
To touch the lion's mane was simply surreal for me, specially with the link I have with them, it was really special. I could learn a little bit about them and to also feel the smell and the oil they normally produce from the skin.
Luiz Carlos Santos Jr ©


Apart of all the birds and exotics animals we could see, the lions, hippo and jaguars were the starts of our day and deserved as I said, hundreds of photos, which I have the pleasure to place here opposite.

I would like to thank Marcio Motta for his special attention with us, as well as Chinha, the park administrator who allowed us perform such special and unique visit.

Unnecessary to mention that I am already talking to  them in order to organise a guided visit with our children and to extend the work we have started having the Park included in our wildlife project.
Luiz Carlos Santos Jr ©

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  1. Maria Cristina Azevedo Zara5 de maio de 2012 às 22:15

    Olá Luiz Carlos, visitei seu blog inteiro e vi todas as fotos.... são lindas! O verdadeiro fotógrafo têm que captar emoção e as suas fotos são carregadas delas.
    Mas o melhor de tudo foi observar a sua evolução espiritual, nesse seu contato com a natureza e desprendimento de valores materiais em prol de projetos sociais. Parabéns e muito sucesso em seus novos empreendimentos. bjs

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  2. Olá Maria Cristina, agradeço o seu comentário e concordo que toda foto tem que vir carregada de emoção. Tenho o costume de falar que se não tivermos o link entre a cabeça e a ponta do dedo que faz disparar a foto, de nada adianta o melhor dos melhores equipamentos, simplesmente a foto não sai. Acompanhe o nosso trabalho e não hesite em entrar em contato sempre que desejar. luizwildphotography@gmail.com
    bjs/Luiz

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