Experiments with Silhouettes

These photos were all taken a while back, inspired by the tookapic silhouette theme. (You can see my tookapic page here https://tookapic.com/jenniferfaye) I thought I would post them now to provide a little contrast to the recent wildlife. 

This tower isn’t necessarily interesting to look at, but I really liked the sky for this shot. 

The following two shots are experiments with forced perspective.  For a first attempt at this, I was pretty happy with how they turned out.

I really enjoy photographing birds, so I had to include a few in my silhouettes.

Below is the only one I managed to snap with sunset colors.  I saw this sky on my way home from work and pulled over just in time to catch it before the sun went completely down. 

And possibly my favorite below.  Unlike all the others, however, this wasn’t taken as a silhouette.  I was playing around with settings and the puppy and I came out underexposed.  I used this type of edit to try and save it and actually really like the way it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thor

Not long after we entered the Brevard Zoo we ran across this guy.  Thor, a Blue Hyacinth Macaw.  He was whistling and making kissing sounds at first, so I decided to go over and say hello.

Then he pretended to be shy.

That didn’t last long though, pretty soon he was chattering away.  “I’m Thor” Over and over again. 

I’m pretty sure this is a smile, that’s what I’m calling it at least.  He had so much personality!

I could have spent more time with him, as he was very entertaining.  There were so many other things to see though, so we had to finally say goodbye. 

Meet Horatio

I have had the amazing experience over the past few days of seeing and being very close to some amazing animals.  I was going to just make one post summing up everything, but then realized I had way too many photos for that.  So slowly but surely I’m planning to go through all of the photos and feature one or two animals per post.  I’ll start with Horatio, a Great Horned Owl.  He has lived at the zoo from a very young age.  Unfortunately he suffered an injury making it impossible for him to survive in the wild.  He seems to be doing fine in the zoo though!  

I love his eyes!

And now for some profile shots. 

And finally below you can get a better full body idea of what he looks like. 

 

Thanks for taking a look!  I would love any feedback or comments.  As always, feel free to share any images but please link back to my blog. 

Bliss

 

It’s been a little while since my last post, I have been having some trouble with live writer.  But hopefully I’ve fixed the problem!  I have so many photos to go through from the past few days, but wanted to just go ahead and post a few to show what I’ve been up to the past few days.  Yesterday was my birthday, and I’ve had some cool opportunities to get up close and personal with a lot of animals including my favorite, the giraffe!  The lighting in these is pretty horrendous, but the experience was so amazing I had to share.  More wildlife photos (and of better quality) to come.

Thanks for taking a look!  Check back soon for lots more photos to come from the adventure that was my 30th (gasp) birthday.