Last week I went to the zoo with a friend and we had a great day of walking, talking and taking pictures. I was telling my husband later that it's funny how my zoo photos have changed since I was a kid. I used to come home with a camera full of shots that showed the enclosures and if you looked carefully enough, you'd see the animal in the space, but they were always pretty small. I guess that's partly due to the equipment, but I know I was always trying to get the whole animal in any shot I took.
These days, I love focusing on certain aspects of the animal. Close ups of faces, the
hands and feet of gorillas, and in the case of these shots, the eyes...
They say that we can tell so much from someone's eyes. I would love to know what some of these animals were thinking when I took these shots...
Now that you've been stared at for a while, let me leave you with this young male lion and his wonderful expression. I caught him at the end of a yawn, but he looks likes he's having a great laugh, doesn't he?
