Mike's Other Pixtures #101

It's almost as if .... we were playing hide and seek.

From the shady end of the Flamingo pond .... there are some good pixtures to be had on a sunny day.

But the foliage is dense enough that you have to time the shot .... if you want the eye.

And photographers always want the eye.

Somehow, this guy knew that .... and seemed to delight in moving just enough so that the branch was right where I didn't want it to be.

I would get the camera up and get focused .... thinking just one more step and I'll shoot.

Then wait and wait and wait .... then just as I took the camera down, he would step.

Mike's Other Pixtures #100

On this day .... he was sitting right next to the glass.

Which makes for about as good a pixture as I might get of this guy.

The glass is of course a problem from the photographers perspective .... but a necessity for him to live in our world.

Some number of years ago, I was doing my pixture thing .... when something I did offended the gorilla I was photographing.

He charged and threw himself against the glass .... scaring the poop out of me. 

I have no idea what I did to cause offense.

But I have been quite thankful for the glass ever since.

Mike's Other Pixtures #99

Even something as ordinary as a pine cone.

Gets a whole new cool .... when you get up close.