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.
By this we gather
You have tripp’d since.
Here’s Johnny!
This chipmunk was moving so fast, this photo posted early.
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.
Camel gravity was particularly strong that day.
Acid rain can wash the hair right off a bison.
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
Just in case you were thinking you were the only one living in a technological dystopia.
The majesty of flight.
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.
And now you should have a sense for how much swallows don’t weigh.
When they think you’re not looking, takin can fly.
And then, when a shot works out, it’s seldom of your original intended subject.
See? Background are crazy hard.
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”.)
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.
Some days it seems like, no matter how hard you try, you’ll never look like that picture.
In this case, the weird little lens thing sort of expands the flower. Still, a neat effect.
There’s a weird little lens attachment you can get that is basically a close-up lens with a hole cut out of the middle. It’s *supposed* to give you a clear center and sort of blur everything else out into something gorgeous.
Turns out that when you use it on a macro lens, you get a halo of your subject (which makes sense thinking about the optics involved).
In this case, it gives a sense of motion where there was none.