Houston Zoo Trip-Part One

Utilizing the "Aperture Priority" setting:

In the picture below I used two popular methods 1. the rule of thirds & 2. "storytelling".
What is "storytelling"? Beginning, middle, and end, the structure of any good story and oftentimes of a good picture. In this picture (below) the water is the "beginning", the duck is the "middle", and the grass is the "end".

A Walk in the Woods

To give you some perspective, the frog pictured below was but two inches long.
Enlarged for detail. :)

Wild Onions

Cows

Cows are so funny! I loved photographing these dear little -I mean Big :) - creatures of God's creation.

Houston Zoo

Taken at 20+ feet away:
Notice the turtles' reflections in the water.

I used an underwater camera, right? -Wrong, these pictures were taken through the glass at the Aquarium. using the " Underwater Wide" setting on my camera (Olympus Sp-56ouz).

Moonjellies...

My old friend, Mr. Rattlesnake.

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