Great Plains Zoo, February 5 ‘25

For my birthday, I really wanted to go to a zoo to do some photography of the animals. Sioux Falls has the Great Plains Zoo, and it’s only about an hour away so that’s where we chose to go. This zoo is pretty small, and while a lot of the enclosures were closed for the winter, it was still a ton of fun seeing the animals that were willing to brave the cold. And let me just say, it was very cold at 16 degrees and a real feel of -5. Regardless of the cold wind and snow flurries, I managed to get a lot of really cool photos of some really beautiful animals. If you recall one of my posts from January contained my top 5 animal targets of the year, a tiger was on that list, and luckily the Great Plains Zoo just happened to have an Amur Tiger. I was so happy and excited to get these photos and I hope you enjoy!