It's Caturday!!!

This photograph is, I think, one of the best I've ever taken. While the snow leopard looks super pissed off, he was actually just yawning. I somehow captured the yawn at just the right moment and this was the result! This is the reason I love to take my camera to zoos. I can take my camera everywhere in my day-to-day life, but I won't see this in my day-to-day life. There are no wild snow leopards on the central coast of California. Hope you like it as much as I do!

so pure......and so loud!

a big pile of cuddle!

Don't you ever just want to jump into a big pile of cuddly otters?

can't hide from me!

Or my zoom lens!

Up close and personal

For some reason, I always assumed that a giraffe's tongue would be course like a cat's. Not so. It's smooth and slobbery (and loooooooooooooooooong). If you ever find yourself at the Santa Barbara Zoo, treat yourself and feed one of these amazing animals.

I fed a giraffe!

I love giraffes. I think that they're pretty much the most ridiculous animals there are (ok, well maybe a close second after duck-billed platypus). So, imagine my excitement when I realized that I could actually feed one at the Santa Barbara Zoo! This is the tall guy I got to feed. Look forward to more awesome animal pictures over the next couple weeks!

Edward Steichen

"The camera is a witness of objects, places, and events.... The technical process simply serves as a vehicle of transcription and not as the art."

--Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen was born in Luxembourg in 1879. At the young age of 16, he became interested in photography. For years, he would combine photography and painting in many of his early Pictoralist pictures. When at 21, he ventured to New York, he met Alfred Steiglitz (who we met last Sunday). Steiglitz purchased three of his photographs.

In 1923, Steichen went to work for the Condé Nast publications Vanity Fair and Vogue. He now got to photograph celebrities and fashions. He received advertisement commissions and even made photographic designs for fabric.


During World War II, he joined the Navy where he headed up a unit of photographers. He was also the first curator of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York where he curated the "Family of Man" exhibit in 1953.