Photo of the Week - Week 13

I finally got the chance to go to the botanical gardens here in Quito. I've barely started going through my photos, but came up with a couple for this post.

So how do you spice up a kind of blase nature scene? Set up for a longer exposure and then zoom while it exposes.

So here is the scene:

Here's the same scene, but zooming while the shutter is open (explosion of life!):

Camera Info:
Shutter speed: .8s
Aperture: F8.0
Lens: Canon 70-200mm

Here's another example with some flowers: