Native American Artisit

Thus far my photo blog has featured photos of inanimate objects and animals. On Easter Sunday I had the opportunity to take photos of a Native American artist who had a both at the Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson. I asked if I could take his photo while he worked, and then he took the time to explain what he was designing.

Get my deserts straight!

In my last post I mistakenly wrote that Tucson is in the Sonora Desert, when in fact it is the Sonoran Desert.

The Sonora Desert

We are in Tucson (see my travel blog at quinnrv.blogspot.com) and it is a very senic area. The city is surrounded by mountains, and is situated in the Sonora Desert, native habitat for the Saguaro Cactus. I been having a ball photographing cacti. These three photos are only the beginning — more to come!

Junction, Texas ducklings…

It is unusual to see so many ducks sticking so close together. The duck were the Long Island type, not wild ducks. We were told that the KOA owners raised the ducks in a pen, and just the day before they had taken them to the river, and they couldn't get them to come out. Later that evening we saw the ducks waddling through the campground, finally on their way back "home."

A few more animal photos…

I still haven't updated the galleries on my website, but I did have occasion to work on a few more of my animal photos, so I decided to make one more post of the Disney Animal Kingdom animals — and then I promise to move on to something else! These photos are fun, and I really enjoyed "developing" them on my Mac. All of the photos were imported into Adobe Lightroom. After making minor adjustments in the Lightroom Develop mode, the photos were opened in Photoshop CS3 where I "polished" them and then saved them for the web. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Taking a rest…

It has been a while since my last post. I wanted to get the Animal Kingdom gallery up on my website, but it hasn't happened yet. Instead I have been really busy updating my presentation for the classes I teach at Life on Wheels. We leave for the Tucson conference in a little over a week, and I have so much to do. In the mean time, a few more animal photos. This Komodo Dragon looked to be enjoying some time in the sun. I sure do love my Nikor 70-300 mm VR lens!

Colobus Monkeys

These tree-dwelling colobus monkeys live in Disney's Animal Kingdom instead of the wilds of Kenya. In the wild these primates live in male-dominated troops and very rarely descend from the trees. Their black & white coats are truly amazing, and they made perfect models for my telephoto lens.


Over the weekend I plan to get add a full gallery of photos from the Animal Kingdom shoot to my website. In the meanwhile,here are three of my favorite colobus photos.