Woot!! Today taking the girls out to the Zoo

 

Bao Bao at 10 weeks. Scientists estimate that a giant panda ancestor split from the bear lineage 18 million years ago. (Tim Flach)

Today I'm going take my girls to the National Zoo in DC to visit the newest addition to their panda exhibit "Bao Bao" born a few months ago is finally making her public appearance this week. Hope to get some good shots.

Sometimes a ooops shot can be saved.

This last weekend I headed down to Middle Creek Wildlife preserve to photograph the snow geese and any other water fowl that happened to be there. On the way there out in a field I saw a small group of snow geese chilling. So I grabbed my camera and my telephoto lens(70-200) and took some shots...I was so exited to get the shots that I only checked to make sure my aperture was in the right setting....but not my shutter speed. I though I had it in aperture priority instead I had it in manual and the shutter was a bit slow..

ooops...

But....hold on..

I liked the way the flock of birds were moving and I had to do something with the shot...couldn't let it sit on the hard drive and collect virtual dust. So opened it up in Lightroom 4 and started to play with it...1 hour later and half a bag of pistachios...voila!

Sometimes you can turn a oops shot into something interesting.

welcome to the new year....2013

So many thoughts and things to say but instead here is a nice picture of some baby pig butts from the farm show in harrisburg,pa