Sorry for anyone checking in for the lack of updates recently. They are probably still going to be a bit sporadic for awhile. At least I have a good excuse. My wife recently gave birth to our third daughter, Emery Rose Paulson. As you can imagine pretty much all my […]
I couldn’t resist posting a few more shot from our Lowry Park Zoo trip. Here is another shot of the two young elephants playfighting. They seemed to get along pretty good and the younger one mostly followed around her older “sister”. The second shot is of an orangutan which are […]
Here is something you don’t see every day. A baby African Elephant nursing. This is the baby elephant from Lowry Park Zoo. The second shot is the baby playing peekaboo. Actually he was just behind the post and exploring it with his trunk, but that is not as good a […]
Well, the cute baby elephant at Lowry Park zoo finally got named. It was named Mpumi, pronounced “Em-pumi,” meaning success or achievement in Swati. Swati is a Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa (thanks Wikipedia). The morning we were there this little one had a lot of eneregy […]
I had so many good photos of the baby elephant from Lowry Park Zoo that I had to post a couple more today. By teh way, loving the new camera. My pictures from the zoo came out much sharper than with my last camera. I did very little processing of […]
Today we went to Lowry Park Zoo to see the baby elephant. We arrived right after the zoo opened and headed straight for the elephant area. We were the first people there. At first the whole group including the baby was by the back fence, but within 5-10 minutes they […]