Mike's Other Pixtures #33

I pretty much always make the Lion enclosure my first stop, when I visit the Zoo.

Their willingness to pose for pixtures varies from day to day.

The pose they are offering .... doesn't change much from minute to minute.

Maybe not even from hour to hour.

This is what I was offered on this day.

So .... I took it.

Mike's Other Pixtures #32

Not too far from our house is a small park .... called Margaret's Pond.

It's been left in a very natural state .... really just a path around a nice pond.

I like to walk there, with my camera .... in the late afternoon.

The ordinariness of it .... makes for some great pixture opportunities.

 Because it forces you to look close and small.

Mike's Other Pixtures #31

There are things that I enjoy, more than an afternoon at the Zoo with my camera .... but not many.

Every visit is a new adventure .... just because the animals behave differently in different weather and light.

Today, was a little cool, so the Zoo was not very busy there.

And it seemed like the animals  .... were happy just to sit in the warmth of the afternoon sun.

I don't often get good pixtures of the Gorillas.

There is always glass between us, which is never a photographers friend.

And they don't seem to like it when I look directly at them.

Although, kids starring at them and even banging on the glass .... bothers them not, in fact, I would say they like it.

This dude, at least I think it's a dude was sitting very near the glass .... as he munched on his lettuce leaf.

And didn't seem to mind .... at least for a while, that I was looking directly at him to frame my shot.

Mike's Other Pixtures #30

It's winter here in Colorado, so I am taking pixtures of Linda's flowers again .... inside at night.

The flower growing from the center of one of the flowers in the bouquet .... caught our eye.

Seems to me that shots taken, indoors, without flash .... always lack pop.

You can get the WB right and you can even bump up the exposure in Lightroom.

But they still don't have the pop that you would get in sunlight.