I was really excited when I read this morning about the new challenge with action pictures because I love to experiment with the camera. I was looking to post a couple of pictures of my vacation that just ended a few days ago and it seems I have a few action pictures there to start with.
I know there are plenty of Sea World pictures around, but I couldn't resist to include thisflying leap in my entry. We encountered this African Musicians that were really energetic and had the fastest  hands I've ever seen. I took three shots at different speeds trying to freeze the hands while moving and they all had the Blur movement in them. Finally this one was taken a few weeks ago. I had a friend walk in front of the camera at night while I shinned a flashlight on her for this Long exposure shot.

I was able to get off work for a few days so we went to visit relatives at Alert Bay. Half the island was an indian reservation with Totem poles  Totem faces boats and  while we were fishing some whales came upto the side of our boat. I'll post more later.

I was going through some pictures and found that I had a lot of pictures of animals. So here's a little story of some animals. Our journey is going to start at Sea World. Where they have dolphins,  baluga whales,  turtles and the world famous Shamu. Who is not the only one who knows how to  wave. We can't forget the pink flamingoes, and  hungry seals. And of course my personal favorite the always hard to photograph  bat ray.

After Sea World we go to the domestic animals, my personal favorite,  Anubis, my kitty and  Coconut, my fiance's kitty. Here is them being  shy, Coconut had some knotts in her fur and wasn't thrilled about getting a hair cut.  Here's Coconut looking at something, curious. And Anubis doing what he does best.  

And now a trip to the beach where for some reason there was a large number of sea clams, and later that night there was a  jellyfish, kinda startling since we set up 'camp' for surf fishing right behind there.

Now back to Colorado where we met Guiness at the wolf santuary. And at the Mountain Zoo we met some sleepy river otters, a  little monkey, and a  hippo. Back at the Royal Gorge there were some natives a  buffalo, and an elk.

And that concludes todays lesson. Enjoy.