Tag Archive | gorillas

Playing Around with Older Photos–Turning into Art!

Apr27
Cougar at the Omaha Zoo
Elephant at the Omaha Zoo

I take tons of pictures at zoos, wildlife reserves, on hikes, at arboretums, and though they are sharp and good (not all of them of course), the backgrounds are boring on some. So I’ve been playing around with texture overlays and texture backgrounds. With the elephant, I added flying dirt particles using a brush to give the sand motion. So much fun. From so-so zoo pictures to something that is really fun to look at.

The first two were shot at the San Diego zoo and the third one at the Minnesota zoo.

So I’m back to Red Wolf. Have 50K. Working on turning it into 60K this week. 80K is the minimum and I’ll shoot for around 89K or so.

And I’m off! Have a safe day!

Terry

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The Gorilla–What is He Thinking?

Jul19

gorilla closeup

What are you looking at?

Let me think on that

Let me think on that

Now I'm Annoyed

Now I’m Annoyed

Pouty

Pouty

But I'm still king of the treetops in here...

But I’m still king of the treetops in here…

The top picture was taken of him right at the glass. He looked straight at me and I barely had time for the camera to partially focus before he moved off.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla:

The word “gorilla” comes from the history of Hanno the Navigator, (circa 500 BC) a Carthaginian explorer on an expedition on the west African coast to the area that later became Sierra Leone.[3] They encountered “a savage people, the greater part of whom were women, whose bodies were hairy, and who our interpreters called Gorillae”.[4] The word was then later used as the species name, though it is unknown whether what these ancient Carthaginians encountered were truly gorillas, another species of ape or monkeys, or humans.[5]

And that is your lesson for today. I had 77,700+ words yesterday, but I decided to move things around and that cut 1500 words out, so I’m at 76674 now and revising to the end, then doing it again. It’s ALMOST finished. 🙂 Billionaire, that is! And now it’s getting fun. Because now I can add the really fun details in each of the scenes and not worry about getting the whole book written. Because it’s already written. 🙂

Off to work on it. Have a great day!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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