Pouring My Art Out

ZOOmin’ around… the final chapter…

Posted on May 29, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Well, this is it for this adventure at the San Diego zoo with my little buddy, Olivia…

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Hey, I told you… she loves turtles…

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That is an actual, life-sized, bronze, Galapagos tortoise, just so you know…

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Oh come on… how cute is she…

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I even saved a couple of the pictures of the baby hippo playing with its mommy, just to bump up the cuteness factor of this last post…

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Oh yeah…

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Okay… that one just sort of fell between the cracks… I had a lot of pictures and… whatever… I still like monkeys…

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Yup, since I renewed my zoo membership card, I am planning on spending time this summer at the zoo and the wild animal park… maybe when I am not babysitting somebody else’s kid and can sit still for a while… and get some awesome zoom shots of animals…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 9… for the birds…

Posted on May 28, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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Oh yeah… hummingbird in flight…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 8… for the birds…

Posted on May 28, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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Birds are not always easy to photograph… even in a zoo setting… and especially the little birds… because those guys move around almost as much as the crack squirrels that live inside my head…

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Inside the San Diego zoo, there are several large aviaries. They are a great place to take a zoom lens… There is also this one, smaller aviary, where they keep small, fast, shy birds. It is particularly challenging… especially when you are babysitting a one-year-old girl with lots of energy… and the thick jungle foliage doesn’t make it any easier…

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But with a little patience, you can get some good shots…

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To be honest, I deleted a lot of pictures that were just blurs… and some where I didn’t see a bird in the photo at all… HA!

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It’s almost like they know you are trying to photograph them…

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Awwwww… that one is building a nest…

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The best thing about digital cameras is that you can take lots of pictures and just delete the bad ones.

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The few good pictures make you look like you actually know what you are doing…

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And you can always just point the camera at the feeding stations and wait…

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But when you catch a hummingbird sitting still, you can’t help but feel proud of yourself.

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ZOOmin’ around… part 5…

Posted on May 27, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So, there I was, at the San Diego zoo, with my zoom lens, just babysitting my little buddy, Olivia… and we saw this mother hippo playing with her baby… I will not break these photos up with words… because it was freakin’ magical…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 4…

Posted on May 27, 2016 by pouringmyartout

A zoom lens at the zoo… what else is there to say, really?… except for: I am thinking of investing heavily in bamboo… and I really like monkeys…

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Yes, I know I have been joking for years that we shouldn’t let politicians run for public office…

Posted on May 27, 2016 by pouringmyartout

But, like many of my ideas, I didn’t really think it through to the end… I understand the frustration that is causing people to vote for political ‘outsiders’… but I don’t really want my doctor fixing my car, or my mechanic doing surgery on me… I don’t want clowns teaching the next generation, and most of all, I really don’t want that guy in the oval office…

A little experience is not necessarily a bad thing.

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ZOOmin’ around… part 3…

Posted on May 27, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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That, in case you were wondering, is a gharial…

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They look like someone took a rubber alligator and stretched its snout out.

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The San Diego zoo has a big tank where they put some gharials in with a bunch of turtles.

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And the thing is…

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Even turtles with freakishly long necks…

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That is the look she gave a bunch of noisy kids on a field trip who were not paying proper attention to the turtles… I guess women are born being able to give looks like that…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 2…

Posted on May 26, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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Oh yeah… world famous San Diego zoo… a zoom lens… and my little buddy…

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What more needs to be said?

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I know, we saw these same birds on our first trip there…

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But this time, one of them flipped his head upside down…

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ooooh… pretty flowers…

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Wait… what the heck is that… some kind of mutant pygmy whale???

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Never mind…

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And that bird was really tiny… look at the size of the grains of sand… and, as usual when I do a series like this… I am saving the best stuff for last.