One shot says it all
Not much of a story today. Just one shot of a few of the animals at the zoo, including the Red-river hog, African Elephant, Red Panda, and Saddlebill Stork.
Hope you're not getting tired of it, although there's really not much left... Just a few cats coming next week.
Thanks for looking and commenting!
Miscellaneous and some Twos
For challenge...
Look out for #1 Don't open this if animal bodily functions upset you.HorsesSomebody the other said they'd like to see both horses in one of my shots and with the new challenge here they are.
For fun...
Just for fun. The reason why I can't get anything done... babysitting the grandcat. The dummy just got done climbing over my head to jump at a bird outside the window.
Ole Split-ear Was outside this morning before first light watching for the deer and only caught a bunny over by the cornfield. It has a split ear. Not real good quality too dark out. Made it at least recognizable in PS.
It's a horsey!
Went for another drive around the neighborhood today. Cloudy and overcast. Here's the result. I don't know what kind of flowers those are but they were pretty.Flower Horse Post It's getting ready to storm here so I had to be quick. Comments and criticisms welcome... just remember I haven't voted yet.
You'll never catch ol SG lion... Nope.....
Drive by Shooting...
I got to go riding around awhile today before I start my medicine for tomorrow then I'll have to stay pretty close to "home". The ones of the heron would have been better but I shot it out of the car and right into the sun. When I first drove by the pond it was down in the water and I thought it was a duck with something. I stopped, backed up, and seen what it was grabbed the camera and fired off a couple before this guy came up behind me in a RV. By the time I got pulled out of the way and across the road he flew off with his fish. He didn't have any problem flying with it even though it was pretty good size.
Bird on a wire. Where have all the flowers gone?Brokeback Pine. Fisherman. Should of seen the one that got away! As always, comments and criticisms are well deserved.
Just "Bear" with me ... one more time....
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A bit more Zoo and another shot at Woooo Hooo's Blue at the Zoo too.....
St. Louis Zoo - Part V.
Here it is... the last installment. Please no applause.I apologize for the sculpture shots. I missed getting them when we turned onto the road to the zoo and the view inside the park is blocked by construction. All you can see is the top of it. It is an awesome sculpture. Here are the non-awesome sculpture pics:
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"Animals Always" Sculpture facts:
Designed and created by world-renowned sculptor Albert Paley, his first representational work.
100-ton Cor-ten sculpture, 130 feet long, 36 feet high, 8 feet deep.
The largest public zoo sculpture in the world.
Contains more than 1,300 elements and as many as 60 sculpted animals, mainly endangered species.
http://www.stlzoo.org/home/featurednews/animalsalwayssculpture.htm
Hangin' Around Emerald Tree Boa
Camel Ballou Obscure reference to the movie "Cat Ballou".
Heidi Bactrian camel girl named "Heidi" was born March 21 weighed 61 lbs.
Don't Crowd Me!
Group Photo
Rock Iguana
The O Face! Common Map Turtle.
Bein' Nosey! Vietnamese Long-nosed Snake
Snorkeling. Water Turtle.
Uncle Joe! He's movin' kinda slow. Obscure Petticoat Junction reference. Aldabra Tortoise.
Ho Hum...Bored today...So here's my cat!!!
His name is Odin. He is truly my God of War... against mice!!! He used to live up the block, but decided he didn't like it there, so he adopted us. The other family understood....even though they don't speak English....oh well... people never own cat's...they own people. We love him!!!! And he's my hero!!!
Odin
Odin 1
Odin 2
Left eye
Right eye
Meow....OK...OK...I was scruffing him... ;>
St. Louis Zoo - Part IV.
Almost there... just one more installment and you're finished.
Somali Wild Ass2 for Cherish.
Whatcha lookin' at? Black and White Colobus.
Slender in the Grass! Gerenuk.
Grass is Always Greener Reticulated Giraffe.
Hide your eyes and count to 100. Reticulated Giraffes.
Do my Ears Look Big? Grevy's Zebra.
I'm a Dry Ass What? Hamadryas Baboon.
Don't Bother Me. Lion-tailed Macaque.
More tongue! Okapi. Related to Giraffe.
I'm Pooped! Speke's Gazelle.
Stanley. Stanley Crane.
Hey, that guy with the camera looks like me! White-faced Saki.
St. Louis Zoo - Part III.
Mostly birds this time. the shot of the puma was the toughest... it was hidden on a limb... and I had to shoot thru the cable net and some leaves after I finally found an open spot to even see it. It was so hot and miserable he was panting and drooling and so was I. If you ain't sick of animals now... you soon will be! Tried to keep'em small!
Whiskers Tawny Frogmouth
Camo Bird Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse.
Kookaburra Full Frontal
Turn your head and cough!
Rhinoceros Hornbill
This IS a toucan! Channel-billed Toucan.
Trumpeter Hornbill
Vulturine Guineafowl
Drooling! You never want to meet a drooling puma on a tree limb.
Big Kitty! Snow Leopard lounging.
Cape Buffalo Statue
Who slung that at me? Hey, wasn't me!
Disclaimer: No genitalia were exposed in the making of these photographs.
St. Louis Zoo - Part II.
Here's the second installment of the St. Louis zoo pics. Hope you're not bored yet cause there's more.Malayan Sun Bear likes to sleep in trees.Again.The Unknown Swinger Our friend in the paperbag.Roughed up Momma! Prairie Dog Pile-up! Superb Starling. Yep, that's its name! Great Hornbill Even hornier! I incorrectly titled these two photos as toucans which, you can see, they are not!
St. Louis Zoo - Part I.
Made it to the zoo Saturday! The St. Louis zoo and it was the hottest most humid day I've ever seen. The animals just wanted to sleep in the shade and I couldn't blame them. Three hours driving both ways about 5 hours at the zoo and 5 or 6 at Harrah's Casino made for a long day! I'll try to spread the pics out over 2-3 days. Tried to keep them as small as possible. If you're sick of zoo animals, well, too bad, I had to suffer to get these and if you don't like them... well, your kids probably will!
Flippin' me the man!
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Giant Anteater
Smart Ape plus Paperbag equals Shade!
Stoned Owl!
Tarantula!
Grizzzzzzzzz...
No Lifeguards on Duty!
Elephant shower! As you can imagine I took a bunch of this elephant...
Get behiind the ears!
Glug Glug!
Ooh, that's Tasty!
They're doing a lot of remodeling and expansion at the zoo. The gorilla exhibit was temporarily closed (dang it). They've erected a neat sculpture on the edge of the zoo called "Animals Always". It's an awesome sculpture out of rusted iron that looks like paper cutouts of various animals. Really nice but we flew buy in the car before we knew it was there. Got a couple pics I'll show later but need to go back to do it justice.
Now I'm going to try and catch up here. I know I'm too far behind on everyone's posts after two days off.
This Memorial Day weekend ... I think I'll just....
It appears that Zoo's have been very popular lately...
So ... Just a few from SG's Zoo in Review....
St. Louis Zoo
Buccaneer Bruce's post earlier reminded me of the many zoos we visit and I've been scanning in a lot of old photos trying to get my website back going again. So I thought I'd post some. These are from 2002 at The St. Louis Zoo, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO! This is one of the best zoos in the country and admission is still free which makes it a no-brainer if you're going to St. Louis. Some attractions charge a fee and parking is $9 which ain't bad for the zoo you're geting. We've been talking about going again soon.Barb just called while I was writing this and we found out our first grandkid is a... BOY! Whooo Hooo, Sorry SG! Anyway here are the scans, ignore any dust spots and have fun.
Gateway Arch
Aw, C'mon Honey! Don't be that way.
Peek-A-Boo
USS Hippo
Leopard watching me...
Leopard watching me too closely... I'm ready for fight or flight... leaning heavy toward flight!
Cool Dude! Sorry, SG, I know you're a surfer dude and live on the beach but his guy is cooler!
Wave Bye Bye! Double barreled shot for Cherish.
After looking at these I remember the leopard well, he actually moved around so he could still make eye contact until we moved on... it was kinda scary. If he attacked, I was counting on Barb throwing herself between us. As always comments and criticisms are welcome here, as long as they don't stay too long.
Mother and child...
It's been 6 months since Mrs.SG and I lost our home to a fire... well we begin moving back in .. in the morning so ... if you don't mind, I am going to post tomorrows challange entry a bit early... and will be busy for the next few days...
Every once in a while you capture that extra special shot... sometimes because you tried to get it.. and sometimes because you screwed up the shot so badly ... it's perfect in your eyes... This is the way I feel about this shot... I call it "E"motion...
"E"Motion..Mother and Child...
