Colorado Trip - Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - Part 2

After the harrowing experience just getting to the zoo, (Which you can read about HERE) we had an awesome time. This zoo is so cool. The whole thing is built into the side of a mountain, so as you walk through the zoo, you're walking up the mountain and the view just keeps getting better. This was the first view after we got to an overlook.

As I said in the last post, the main draw of the zoo, besides the views, is the fact that you can pet the giraffes. They have one of the biggest giraffe populations in the US. They also have an indoor area, and in there they were training young giraffe.

They also have okapis. :)

Like I said in my first post, these things are everywhere. :)

View #2.

Part of the giraffe exhibit as seen from above.

This reminded me of Lost. :)

View #3.

The giraffes weren't the only things you could pet. They also had some wallabies out and about.

We all had to take turns getting our pictures taken petting them. :)

These two ladies even had a baby out for visitors to pet! :)

It was adorable!

The colors aren't the greatest in these pictures, the lighting was strange in many places in the reptile house. It was very cool looking, but it didn't make for very good pictures. This room was the coolest. They had snakes in these tanks with all different colors of glass rocks, along with pieces of art. It was so unique. I wish more of my pictures had turned out.

Another visitor to the zoo walked up to this little guy and handed him a piece of popcorn. He took it!

If you look closely, you can see a mountain lion, which Sasha is photographing.

That's all my pictures from the zoo. If you still want more, I have a few more of my best pictures on my photography blog, which you can find HERE. I still have more pictures to come from the rest of the trip, so stay tuned for those!

To the Zoo with Matthew

This month, instead of going to the zoo alone, I went with my friend Matthew. We had a great time and visited a few places I had never gone before. I have a ton of pictures, as usual. I will be doing my regular post here, and then I will also be doing posts of my more “Artistic” (In my opinion anyway) pictures on my photo blog.

This little frog cracked me up. I’m not sure what exactly he was looking for. :)

I finally got a better picture of this female parrot.

There were docents walking around the Animal Kingdom Pavilion with animals for people to pet. I petted this ball python. It was a lot warmer than one would imagine. Snakes are cold blooded, but that doesn’t mean they’re cold to the touch.

Peacocks all over the place, as usual.

They were really shrieking that morning.

If it were legal to own an okapi, I would. How could anyone NOT love that face? :)

I hadn’t realized the zoo had two okapis! I wonder if they just got the second one. It is fenced off from the main one.

I took a ton of pictures of the okapi. I will do an entirely separate post on my photo blog just about him.

This hornbill was pretty crazy. He kept running all around the fence trying to get people to feed him.

Blogger is not wanting to publish my post, it may be that I have too many pictures, so I am going to have to split up this post into more than one. Be on the lookout for part two soon!

Back to the Zoo

I had another photography assignment due today, so on Thursday I went back to the zoo for more animal pictures. It was pretty good weather, cool, but not unpleasantly so. It was a bit overcast though, so most of my pictures ended up rather dull looking. I managed to find a few worth keeping, and I spent quite a few hours going through and cropping them. I also discovered that I could change the saturation levels and wow, did that make a difference! Instead of dull, washed out colors, I had bright vibrant pictures that the colors just exploded out of!

BUT my computer is a butt-head.

After I went through all the work of editing the best ones, my computer saved them all as blank white squares. I had nothing, and I only had a day left to get more pictures.

But all was not lost. I had deleted hundreds of pictures as I went through them. Most were deleted because they were too similar to the ones I saved. If I did a good enough job editing them, I might have a decent collection of pictures to turn in.

I went to the recycle bin and un-deleted everything. I spent Sunday afternoon editing like crazy, and I ended up with pictures more interesting than the ones I had saved before. The only thing I know I’m missing is a picture of a sleeping white tiger. I only took one picture, and it was eaten by an e-gremlin. Oh well. Next time I go to the zoo, I’ll go back and try again.

Here are most of the pictures I submitted this morning. I’ll post more in future blog posts.

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