Gas Cylinder

I don't know why, but I think that's awesome.

el Gato

Eh, I need some flash portraiture practice every now and then, right?

The kitteh am adorable.

Cell phones killed them all!

Night hornet

DA 50-200 with the 25mm tube and AF-360FGZ flash.

Why there's a single hornet pestering our door lamp, I don't know.

A Study in Color

With the fisheye, 13mm f4.5 1/2500sec. Not the best composition, but I liked the contrast of pink and yellow and everything else. This is why I have extreme wide angle lenses, too - I wasn't all that far away from the flowers.

Cheezburger

My flash... apparently it stops doing preflash TTL exposure when the battery runs low enough. Neat feature, but I'm also ever so slightly past the intoxication limit that lets me remember to check my shutter speed. Most of the pictures of the cat have ghost ears or ghost tails because the shutter speed was too long.

Lemur Laziness

This is what being a lemur is all about. The ring tailed lemurs do this on the ground, the red ruffed do it in the trees.

That's the male, whose name I've forgotten. He seems to have a darker coat, but he also has an ear tag.

Fun fact! The lemurs yell at each other to announce their territory after the building closes. Sometimes, this triggers the howler monkeys; I have yet to hear the howlers going off, though.

Oddities

Peeping Mantis

This plucky little fellow was spying on our web/IT coordinator person. I was told to come investigate, so I did. Turns out they don't like having red pens waved at them from behind glass. Not that it flew away, but it wasn't really ... well, I wouldn't describe it as happy, what with the retracting its front arms and shifting itself backward on the glass.

temperate?

It's 63 degrees in the living room of the house I live in right now.

Open the hatch

Foundations of the river's past

I found this stairway up off a maintenance road in the park today. Apparently, it was better made than whatever used to live behind it... what's interesting is to think of the anthropologic studies that will take place where I was standing today in a couple hundred years.



This is the river at the Daniels area of Patapsco Valley state park. There's a dam just downstream of here, hence the depth and slow flow. Some kids got thrown out for swimming, the park was crawling with people, and I didn't see much in the way of wildlife. Sky sure was nice, though.