Friday Night Photos Zoomania Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 11/22/2024 - 5:00pm
Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.
It's been sunny and 70s all week so I took advantage of the nice weather and went to the zoo for a few hours on Mon. and Thur. morning. It's always hit or miss on how active the animals are. Both mornings were a hit this week.
Each morning when the zoo opens they have a flyby of Macaws. This Blue and Yellow Macaw was from yesterday's flyby.
Orangutan
Guianan Squirrel Monkey
Hippopotamus
Koala Bear
Malayan Tiger
Angolan Colobus Monkey
Gelada Monkey
Male Mandrill Monkey
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"It's always hit or miss on how active the animals are.
Both mornings were a hit this week."
As a result of your good timing we all are able to enjoy these excellent images.
Hi, humphrey
The one animal you can count on to be active all the time are the Guianan Squirrel Monkeys. They don't sit still for any length of time. You could spend hours watching them playing and chasing each other around.
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Hi Social and all
As always, your portraits are very revealing of the interesting features of your subjects. I’m glad the weather and animal activity was accommodating. It’s our pleasure as well.
Sorry I don’t have more to contribute after such a long absence. I have been mostly in the magical world of two little girls. I am slowly re-entering reality, and happy to be back in your company.
Angles and curves ...
Be well all
Nice shots of the arches
What’s not to like about arches?
Some might enjoy this article on a SF photographer
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-iconic-photographer-fred-ly...
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Hi snoopy
Thank you for the nostalgic and beautiful photos from Arches.
I spent a good month camping and exploring the canyon lands of Southern Utah in 1986. My photos are all in Kodachrome sitting in a box in the cupboard.
Thank you for linking to Fred Lyon. His work is iconically West Coast in the manner of NYC contemporaries of the time.
Give Sam a hug from me.
I saw them in the 80's too
and I’m thankful that I did then because now it’s almost impossible to get in the park because of the traffic. During Covid everyone and their dawg came to Utah to see the parks. Arches has a ticket schedule now. I don’t know how it works cuz what if people don’t leave until dark?
And Zion is just as bad.
Sam is in hibernating mode now. She stays in bed most of the day and she wants to go home asap when we’re walking. Usually she follows me around after getting home until she gets her treats, but now she beelines to the bed.
Funny dawg.
Glad you had fun with your grand babies.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Most memorable for me
was Capitol Reef and Canyonlands, not to mention the small empty Kodachrome Park I spent a week alone (except for the ranger) in.
Save my hug until Sam reappears from hibernation ; ).
That’s where I want to go
2 places I haven’t seen. And goblin valley. I drove through Zion and Kodachrome decades ago and I have no interest in seeing Zion again because of the amount of people there. I’d only go to the Grand Canyon to go river rafting… just no interest in desert type scenery. The mountains are my home.
I’ll let Sam know that she has a hug waiting. This hibernating happened over night. One day she spent her time with me and next she was in the bedroom.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Yeah snoopy
I also wondered about Sam's decision and timing to hibernate?
Nice shots of the arches, snoopy
One thing Utah is not in short supply of is fantastic landscapes.
Thanks for the link. What an incredible photographer Fred Lyon was.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
That’s true
Utah has a bit of everything except the ocean. The Great Lake just doesn’t do it for me because there are no waves. I got a great picture of Sam prancing in the water. I’ll find it and post it next week.
I haven’t seen much of S Utah tho. Maybe next year. I keep saying that.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
beautiful SD!
Great arches SD~ Beautiful photos!
n/t
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Welcome back, Janis
Glad to hear your time with family was magical. As for lack of images, quality is way more important than quantity, and as always you have presented us with all quality tonight.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
What a warm and wonderful welcome back
Thank you Social.
Hey J!
Hi Janis!
Great to see you back, and glad you were having fun. Any new reality is likely an improvement!
Great angles and curves too! Beautiful photos!
Thanks for the pixels!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi D!
Good to be back again in good company.
Thank you, and yes nature and magical thinking are much preferred realities.
@janis b Exquisite especially that
Exquisite especially that bottom photo, jb.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I love the framing of the tigers
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Nice shot. Maybe some day I’ll go to the SLC zoo that has been upgraded quite a lot in the last decade…maybe. I have fond memories of going there as a kid. I can still smell the monkey house.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Thank you, snoopy
You're not that far from the SLC Zoo. Hope you can get there soon and make some new memories.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Nope
Just about 40 minutes. I should go while kids are in school. Hopefully they changed the monkey house by now.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Hi pixies :)
Hi all, Hey SP!
Awesome shots as always man! Great work! Love that Mandrill. What an animal that is. There are some vids of Hippos chasing people in motorboats in Africa and they are astonighly fast in the water.
I guess taxonomists need the work, but those were called Blue & Gold Macaw for a hundred years, though I see it is officially Blue & Yellow (aka Blue & Gold). Great photo of a great bird.
Thanks for the OT, and awesome shots SP! Love that song...
happy trails all!
edit to fix two typoos
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi, dystopian
According to one of the volunteers I was talking to the hippos can move at 20 mph in the water and 30 mph on land. Amazing how fast they can move for an animal so large.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Wonderful pics all!
But I have to say the Malayan Tigers are my favorite. We saved our or I should say my Tiger collection of art work from the flood. Ms So has ambivalent feelings about Tigers. It means a lot to us, that we have a couple of hand painted Tiger scrolls hanging on the wall in this otherwise non-descript apartment.
Ms. So's aunt painted this copy of 18th Century "renaissance painter" Kim Hong-do's tiger:
Whenever I mention Tigers I have to post Tiger is Coming, a Pansori/modern fusion piece by crazy LeeNalChi below.
Based on the myth of a sea turtle that called a rabbit down the mountain, for a deceptive purpose. He erroneously called the rabbit "Ho" (tiger) instead of "Do" (rabbit). As a result the sleek, powerful, tiger came down the mountain inspiring mortal fear in the sea turtle. The moral of the story I guess is don't tell lies, the Tiger might get you. There is one mistranslated word in the song: the Tigers front legs are like pillars not quivers.
語必忠信 行必正直
Hi, soryang
Of all the big cats, tigers are my favorite. Ms So's aunt is a very talented painter. Glad you were able to save the scrolls from the flood and have a place to hang them.
Love the Leenalchi tune. Very upbeat.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Thanks SP
Your photos are stunning really, all of them.
語必忠信 行必正直
Thank you, soryang
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Thank you soryang for the beautiful ink drawing
and the wild Korean fusion piece of music.
Somehow it brought to mind the Talking Heads ...
Great tune
I always liked it, but I had never seen the Talking heads on stage. Very animated, I see the similarity, makes me feel you may have seen LeeNalchi's stage act. I choose the Tiger is Coming video with the translation, for obvious reasons. Their stage act is wild too.
語必忠信 行必正直
I haven't seen their stage performance yet,
but look forward to it ; ).
... just watched this
There are definite similarities!
browns
Hi all,
I gotta fly, and all I got is some browns...
Of which moths surely must be the champions...
Have no idea of specific identification. My eyes can't trudge through moth ID stuff currently.
Hope all are well!
happy trails!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Nice selection of moths, dystopian
I like the ornate markings on the last two. Looks like you got a three fer on the third image. Two moths and what looks like it might be a leaf hopper in the lower left corner.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Thanks D
The wings of the last moth are a beautifully patterned specimen.
I imagine your eyes have gotten a thorough workout over the years of acutely observing nature, and I hope and trust they will continue to enchant you, and us.
Cheers!
Terrific pics and tunes, guys/gals.
Right now, it is 50 degrees in ECFL, and this Floridian is cheering the gradual end of storm season!!!!!!!!
Hurricanes/tropical storms hate cool water temps and dry atmospheric conditions. They are beginning to occur. YEAH! By the way, Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Hi, obf
It's 38° out right now. It may get up to 70 by mid afternoon. It's the start of our storm season (not that we get a lot of storms) and there's rain in the forecast for later this week.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.