Day 54

Zebras & lions at rest
Tucson Zoo 7.12.11

Day 53

Polar bear series
Tucson Zoo 7.12.11

Day 52

afternoon with a friend, wine, laughter

Day 51

Back-half
Mash-up project: 100 Days meets Balloons in the Wild

Day 50 1/2

I liked Nicolette Wong's response to Sarah Ricther's images here and here, which led me to stumble back a ways through Sarah's work when I found myself gazing happily at this. Nicolette's word choices made quite a raucous echo as I arrived here:

jagged pulse racing, left behind after
a lapsed maze begins to confess her sins to
the corner carnival barker, slow and honeyed
the sound of bow dragged over g-string
(cello, not panty)
resonance threaded with both time and
wide glaring curtain strings.

Day 50

From top: Lar Gibbon, Roseate Spoonbill,
Andean Bear, King Vulture
Tucson Zoo, 7.8.11

Day 49

This morning found me on another trip to the zoo...I'm enjoying spending large chunks of time with/near each animal, surveying their behaviors and watching them watch me. I'm trying to divvy up my time so I don't spend all my frames on, say, peacocks and elephants, which would be totally easy and okay to do. I spent today's outing solely in the South America habitats and I was surprised at how much I was interested by those animals, too.

Something I've long believed in, as far as my governing photographic philosophy goes, is presenting the world the way it is. In urban nature areas, this means the inclusion of utility poles, asphalt, and other human-constructed stuff. So at the zoo, that means I have no aesthetic issues including wires, fencing, dirty glass separating me from imminent death and the like. I plan to make at least weekly trips to the zoo for more animal studies, and I'll likely wrap up the daily photography entries as my 100 Days projects next week. Or not. You'll just have to wait and see.