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hellziggy ([personal profile] hellziggy) wrote2005-03-14 01:06 am

Weekend

Friday was spent relaxing at home.

Saturday I ran out to the Minnesota Zoo for a couple hours. The two baby girl tigers are so big! I spent quite a while watching them & taking pictures, both color digital for me and B & W for my class. I sat down in front of the glass to take a picture and was very pleasantly surprised to find that the ground was heated! I saw wolves & lemurs too.
Here's a picture of cub #11144, aka Lana:


and another one:


and I'm pretty sure this one is also Lana, but it's hard to tell w/o a front shot of her face:

That whole stone area is heated both inside & outside the glass! Yay!

More pic from Saturday are at: dreamflyte.com

The 3 wolves slept the entire time. Boys are lazy. :) All the girl wolves are currently out of there.


Jeanine came over Saturday night & showed us pictures of her trip to Mexico & she brought us back all kinds of cool things! I want to be on a warm beach right now! And of course, all the talk about Mexico got us craving Mexican food so we went on up to El Loro. Yummy!

Today [livejournal.com profile] hellbob & I headed on over to [livejournal.com profile] genevra & [livejournal.com profile] akdar's house to babysit the twins so they could go to a movie. I have the cutest niece & nephew ever! And they crawl now!

After we left their place [livejournal.com profile] hellbob & i headed downtown & I took some more pictures for my class. Tomorrow night I get to develop the film to see if I've got anything good for my assignment that's due in a week & a half!

[identity profile] passaddhi.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Bit nippy out for the zoo! How was my tapir?

There are two in there...

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The tapirs were just lying there doing nothing. Both binturongs were waddling around though. :)
Bit nippy for the zoo is good, because it meant the Northern Trail was not crowded at all! And once I discovered the heated ground I was quite comfy.

[identity profile] gunthar.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
I love the close-up shot. It is possible to brighten the image enough to bring out the iris and pupil of the tiger's eye without messing up the beautiful colors of the fur?

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately not. :(
The glass was pretty thick & had lots of nose & paw prints on it so a lot of detail was lost.

[identity profile] gunthar.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Lighting and Tigers and Smears--oh my!