toledo zoo: the big ones!

rhino

hippo

the elephants were hiding, so i didn't get any good shots of them, unfortunately.

toledo zoo: the aquarium

unicorn fish. i've never heard of this before, but i thought it was pretty neat looking.

this could be my favorite picture from the whole zoo. the octopus. all squished up into the corner of the tank. it's beautiful! and somehow gross at the same time.

clown fish really do live in anemones! who knew?

this was supposed to be some kind of glowing coral or something.

jelly fish - so cool.

dori!

toledo zoo: the ape house

these pictures are not very good, but i didn't want to leave out the apes. the lighting was weird in this building, and there was a lot of glare on the glass that i just couldn't find a way around.

anyway, here are gorillas

and orangutans

so, this picture is horrible, but this was a momma orangutan (left) playing with her baby(right). it was SO CUTE, even though the picture is bad, i couldn't leave it out.

toledo zoo: the aviary

toledo zoo: african safari

did you know there were penguins in africa? i didn't.

toledo zoo: the arctic

lake michigan shore line

i took these pictures while camping last weekend at weko beach in bridgman, michigan.

i like this one because the lines are so straight, it looks like stripes. i also like the color contrast.

it was so windy, these guys were "flying" on these water parachute things. sorry, i'm water-sport ignorant, i have no idea what they're called. but it was fun to watch.

in these next two i was trying to capture the wind-prints in the sand. it looked kind of like waves. i don't know, i'm not thrilled with the way the pics turned out, it looked a lot cooler in real life. oh well.

*i'm still working on pics from the toledo zoo. last week was very busy. hopefully i'll get them posted this week.