Penguins Part 2

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone had a great week! This week I'm adding MORE penguin shots...They are just too darn cute--and I took so darn many shots of them! :-)

This week, the shots include a couple of them walking to get into the water..hard to show how cute they walk, but nevertheless, I hope you like them. The rest are shots of them swimming with a couple of head shots.

Enjoy!



Prepare to say "Ahhh"!!!

I was so excited to shoot these little guys at the Zoo. They are African Penguins. There are 12 of them, but I think I only shot 9 of them. They were so cute, waddling around, swimming, etc. You could also watch them underwater, but I didn't get any good shots through the plexiglass and water, so here is what I managed to capture!

1st pic-standing around

2nd pic-calling for his mate

3rd pic-headshot

4th pic-one swimming in the water

5th pic-a group of them hanging on their "beach"

Hope you enjoyed them..I do have even MORE shots for you next time! I narrowed down my 100+ shots of them to about 15! :-)

Thanks for visiting today!

Zoo Pics & Thanks!

As mentioned, my friend, Melissa and I went to the Toronto Zoo on Remembrance Day! They were calling for rain, but it held off----thankfully! Here are some shots I took within the first 1/2 hr of our visit. More to come!

1st -Warthog

2nd-Duck balancing on 1 leg

3rd-Tapir having a snack

4th-Cattle Egret

5th-Green Ratsnake (sorry to those snake-haters)

6th-Birds having a snack

AND NOW THE THANKS!
Thanks to all who visit my blog! I can't believe my little blog has almost 2500 pageviews! Anyway, I'm giving all my faithful readers an early Xmas present! Yes, just send me an email if you are interested. Everyone who does gets an 8.5x11inch, cardstock (or laminated--I'm still working out the design) 2012 calendar with one of my photos on it. You can specify the photo by name and date of the post if you know....if you aren't sure, just state heron, penguin, moose, etc. whatever your animal of choice is and I'll pick one of my favourites!

Just email me at maracle.susan@gmail.com with your photo of choice and your address so I can mail it to you!

Thanks again for visiting!!
Susan

A Hiking We Will Go....

Last Sunday was so beautiful that we went for a walk around Lemoine's Point in Kingston. It's a pretty nice walk, but even better if you get to see some critters! Here are all the ones we saw throughout the walk..sorry for posting so many this week, but I couldn't narrow it down to just 2-3 this week!

1st-Bluejay

2nd-Chickadee

3rd-Nuthatch

4th-Woodpecker-he was far away!

5th-the sun shining through the trees

6th-chipmunk, pigging out on the seeds

7th-fat squirrel eating something

8th-squirrel checking us out

9th-another squirrel

10th-a black squirrel

My friend Melissa and I were at the Toronto Zoo on Friday and I took 3 SD cards full of pictures, so once I get through them, I'll be sure and post some shots...We had an awesome day for shooting. It was a bit chilly, but didn't rain on us! The animals tend to be more active too! I got to see and shoot the African Penguins too..they are so darn cute, I wanted to sneak one home!

PEI Critters

Welcome back Everyone!

This week I'm highlighting some shots of critters that I took while in PEI. The middle 3 pics were all taken at New Argyle Beach, PEI. I think it was our favourite beach! Lots of critters to dig up and torment! ha!

1st Pic-A Snail and it's trail--makes a great background! This was taken at a small beach we stopped at to poke around (name unknown)

2nd Pic-A Crab--not sure of the kind--definitely not a green crab, as they are really agressive and these guys were scurring to get away from us--I don't blame them!

3rd Pic-a Razor Clam-we would dig these guys up and then watch and time them to see how long it took for them to sink into the mud! They're very fast!

4th pic-A Clam-not sure what kind, but he was being shy once we picked him up!

5th pic-a Starfish-this would make a good background too!

6th pic-A bunch of hermit crabs under the water! Can you guess how many there are?

Well, this week my fellow photographer, Melissa and I are off to the Toronto Zoo to shoot some more animal pics...I'm hoping to see the penguins this time as we had just missed them last time we were there..they opened like 2 days later! URGH...

Enjoy!

OUR NEW PHOTOGRAPHY VENTURE!

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Thanks,
Susan

Flowers Pt. 2

Sorry for not posting last weekend...I babysat my cute little 3 year old neice last Saturday, went and saw Footloose with Brooke and on Sunday and Monday (the PA day), the girls and I went shopping in Watertown and Syracuse, so I had NO time.

EXCITING NEWS: This past week has seen me getting ready for something exciting! My friend and fellow photographer, Melissa and I are opening a website to sell our photos...Well, she's doing a lot of the website work and I've been busy uploading my photos, wish it were as easy as that sounds!

The Process: I always enhance the lighting on my photos as the camera doesn't always get it right, or I have it set for the wrong white balance! After that, I have to resize it and save it and then resize it for thumbnail size and save it again! Then I make a zip file for each one and then I can upload it to the site! Whew, no wonder I'm so tired today--that and I've been working for about 5 hrs today! The time consuming part is finding certain photos--when I'm searching for a certain one, I question why I needed to take so many pictures!! URGH!

Check back next week (around November 1st) and I will post the URL, so you can all check out the website. We'll announce it on Facebook too!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Here are some more flower photos from PEI! Enjoy!