another day at the zoo...

[handmade34]

the path less traveled



in the water



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squirrel monkey eating berries

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YES, boycott "Water for Elephants" this elephant caretaker knows the situation personally and verifies... makes him very angry!! (he is playing with Reba's tail here)

[Saphire]

1. Love, love, love the first one. I don't know what you did to capture

the light, but it works!

For whatever reason, it makes me think of "Twilight Zone".

[handmade34]

4. my thoughts too

as if the scene is frozen in time... it was a bright morning and I was working on backlit but couldn't get the shot I wanted. I loved the randomness of the group of people (not really paying attention to the animals they supposedly came to see) but the original didn't have any zing! I took away the color, darkened it, heightened the shadows and although it was b&w, I intensified the saturation and that gave it the zing I was looking for...

[Mira]

2. Almost all of these seem surreal, in a very good meaning of the word.

The first one makes me feel I'm back in the early sixties. All of it feels unreal, and I keep going back with my eye to the diagonal of the neck of the giraffe. What an incredible photograph you got there.

The second one does not send me that much, but does remind me of my exclamations when I first saw cactus like that in the "wild".

The third one puts me back into the spirit of the fist one, except there is color now. If there weren't one would easily think all these children belong to that one woman and that there is nothing special about that. Perpetuating that feel of a time gone by.

The fourth one, all I can think of is that a photo Alfredo took sneaked into your lineup. It has the abandon and joy he captures. I think it's magnificent.

Love - love the monkey photo. Would take some off the bottom and some off the right as an experiment.

And the last one: I read the book and now I don't remember the references... Never liked the book as much as it was hyped to be.

Overall, I am really happy to see these, and I hope you don't mind my walking along with you one at a time.

[handmade34]

5. yes, I am channeling alfredo!!

:)


the story is that the elephants were seriously mistreated (in real time) for the production of "Water for Elephants"... the photo I took is nothing special but the story the caretaker told was of import and I wanted to pass that along
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/animal-rights-group-shows-new-video-20110513-1em5p.html



we were able to go into the area with the Spider Monkeys and I took dozens very close...

[NV Whino]

3. That first one is spectacular!

And perfect for backlit. I wouldn't crop the magnificent monkey shot. the blurred background draws your eye to the sharp focus of the monkey and give it a sense of place.

[handmade34]

6. thanks

I feel like such a scmuck because I have great equipment and am just having a really good time doing something I have no right doing because I really know nothing about my camera or how it works...!!

that being said, I think there is hope for me

[Mz Pip]

7. I love the lighting in the first one.

definitely my favorite of the group.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Beautiful work!

The first on in particular caught my eye. The lighting is so unique that it's hard to pin down what makes it so appealing. That image is a textbook example where the conversion to b&w really worked with composition to add interesting detail that would otherwise be lost.

Nice job indeed!