The sun had already set when I captured these two zebras nuzzling up to one another. I liked that it’s not a complete silhouette — that you can still see detail in the zebra’s bodies. The photo was taken in the Laikipia region of Kenya on our most recent trip back in November.
This is an old one that I took back in 2002 when I was living in my car and still shooting slides. I was doing a lot of experimenting with shooting the moon as a double exposure. The rule of thumb was to shoot the moon at the shutter speed of your film (so 125th of second for 100 speed film) and f/16. That way you just record the moon and nothing else on the slide is exposed. You have to remember where the moon is on the slide, then reposition for the landscape. In this case I used a telephoto lens to get the moon and a wide angle for the landscape. Of course, now all you do is combine two different shots in Photoshop, but it was fun to get it in one take. This was at Saguaro National Park just outside of downtown Tucson.
The Stradun is the main street through the center of old town Dubrovnik. I took this shot at about 5 AM when there was no one around. By noon each day — after all the cruise ships drop off the thousands of tourists that join forces with all those that stay at the hotels just beyond the city walls — The Stradun gets packed with people. I, of course, much prefer it when like this.
I figured it was about time for another look at the meerkats. This go round it’s one guard communicating with another guard. They have quite the system, each meerkat taking a shift as a lookout while the rest of the troop forages.
Back down to Brazil for a giant river otter mother and one of her pups feeding on a catfish. I saw quite a few of these enormous otters when I was in the Pantanal, cruising up and down the various rivers and tributaries of South America’s great flooded wetland.
These three lion cub siblings seemed to be lining up for their family portrait. This one was taken in the Laikipia region of Kenya.
In honor of my frog loving little sister who’s birthday it is today, I had to search through my archives to find a suitable subject. This beauty is a Madagascar reed frog that I photographed in the town of Maroantsetra. I was stranded in the town due to bad weather and spent several days just walking around the grounds of the hotel I was staying at, looking for whatever animals I could find. When young, these frogs are completely yellow (see this link to a juvenile that I saw the next day) but when they mature, they get that nice light blue color on their backs. Happy birthday Mo.
This view of Dubrovnik is from the opposite side of the city from last week’s post. I decided to get up very early one morning and get as many photos as I could before the cruise ships dropped off all the tourists. It was still about 45 minutes to sunrise when I took this one.
For those of you who have been following my blog for awhile, you might remember the weekly Friday Frog. I don’t know that I’m ready to start posting a frog every Friday again, but here’s an old one that I always liked. This was taken in Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge in southern Indiana.
Here’s another harbor seal from Children’s Pool Beach in La Jolla, California. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that an ongoing legal battle has been stalled in the local courts between seal advocates on the one hand and locals on the other who want to return the beach to human bathers. The story goes back to 1931 when a local philanthropist built a sea wall to protect the beach from dangerous surf and dedicated it to the city under the condition that “said lands shall be devoted exclusively to public park, bathing pool for children, parkway, highway, playground, and recreational purposes.” I guess they didn’t count on the seals liking it so much. My vote clearly goes to the seals (and it seems that most of the locals do prefer the seals too, as it has become a popular tourist attraction).