These are the Hanuman langurs that I saw all over the place in the national parks of India. It seemed that every adult female was with a baby. In fact, they practice what is known as alloparenting — which means that a baby can be given to, and raised, by a non-biological mother.
Okay, I know I’ve posted quite a few harbor seals lately, but I really can’t get enough of these guys. This one looked like he had quite the headache. As with the other two harbor seal posts lately, this was taken at Children’s Pool Beach in La Jolla, California.
Here’s another species of cactus, this time in Anza-Borrego State Park in southern California. It was getting dark when I took this shot and I ended it up with quite a few pieces of the prickly stuff stuck to my legs by the time I made it back to the car.
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.