Insects are little photobombers.
Vet Station
The Oglebay Good Zoo is named after Philip Mayer Good, but it’s a pretty good zoo nonetheless. It’s a small zoo for a small city, but they do a lot with what they’ve been able to get.
In particular, I like this little kid-sized vet clinic with various instruments and exam tables. Not pictured is the rack of stuffed animals over to the right where kids can select their patients, ranging from tigers, to wolves, to dinosaurs.
Prairie Dogs performing Winter’s Tale
By this we gather
You have tripp’d since.
Rainbow Lorikeet
Here’s Johnny!
Chipmunk
This chipmunk was moving so fast, this photo posted early.
Prairie Dogs performing Two Gentlemen of Verona
For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I kill’d a man, whose death I much repent;
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage or base treachery.
Bactrian Camel
Camel gravity was particularly strong that day.
Bison
Acid rain can wash the hair right off a bison.
Prairie Dog performing Merchant of Venice
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
Chickadee
Just in case you were thinking you were the only one living in a technological dystopia.
Duck
The majesty of flight.
Prairie Dogs performing King John
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.
Swallow
And now you should have a sense for how much swallows don’t weigh.
Takin
When they think you’re not looking, takin can fly.
Butterfly
And then, when a shot works out, it’s seldom of your original intended subject.
Butterfly
See? Background are crazy hard.
Butterfly
This is an example of a failed test of the new lens stuff. Here I learned that a wide angle macro lens will pick up the background a lot more than a regular lens, so shooting in a butterfly house only works if you’re shooting down.
I also learned that some lens flares are really weird when it comes to chromatic aberration.
(I also learned that it’s really hard to spell “aberration”.)
Butterfly
I’ve spent some time this last summer trying to find a combination of techniques that would allow me to do wide angle macro. Of course, now that I’m pretty sure how to do it, a weird little lens company has announced a professional version of exactly what I’ve been trying to build. I’m trying to focus more on what I learned this summer and now how much time I wasted trying things that didn’t work out.
Butterfly
Some days it seems like, no matter how hard you try, you’ll never look like that picture.
Butterfly
In this case, the weird little lens thing sort of expands the flower. Still, a neat effect.