Animals – Page 60 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

March 2, 2016

2016-03-02: Wordless Wednesday

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February 20, 2016

2016-02-20: World Pangolin Day

I’ve already done a post with the best pangolin photos I managed to take (if you missed it the first time around, you can find it here). But as it’s world pangolin day, I thought I would see what I could do with a photo that didn’t make the original post, in a black and white edit. I like the way the texture of the scales are emphasized in monochrome.

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February 8, 2016

2016-02-08: Monochrome Monday

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January 27, 2016

2016-01-27: Wordless Wednesday

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January 26, 2016

2016-01-26: WPC Optimistic

I am optimistic that all of these beautiful creatures will have the opportunity to live out their lives in the way nature intended, without the influence of poacher’s or trophy hunter’s bullets. That is my hope, and if like minded people continue to join together, perhaps it will happen in my lifetime.

20160126_WPC Optimistic-3 — A leopard with one of her young, as they worked to reunite with the second cup (gratefully we were able to witness the reunion).
Ngala Game Reserve, May 2015

20160126_WPC Optimistic-4 — Part of an elephant parade on route to a waterhole for an early evening drink.
Sabi Sands, May 2015

WPC: Optimistic

January 20, 2016

2016-01-20: Wordless Wednesday

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January 18, 2016

2016-01-18: Monochrome Monday

As it turns out, I didn’t end up liking a single photo I took last week, so instead, I edited one from the archives that I was looking at over the weekend.

January 17, 2016

2016-01-17: WPC Weight(less)

A bit late with posting this one, but this little one is too cute not to share.

WPC: Weightless

January 11, 2016

2016-01-11: Monochrome Monday

If the day ends in Y, it’s a day that I will happily edit some elephant photos – so that’s what I’ve done

I hope you enjoy, and have a wonderful evening.

20160111_Monochrome Monday-2 — Such beautiful texture!

/640sec, f5.6, ISO 640

20160111_Monochrome Monday-3 — I just can’t resist the look on this elephant’s face as he reaches up for the perfect branch to chew on.

1/800sec, f8.0, ISO 6400

20160111_Monochrome Monday — My favourite baby elephant, testing to see if sand is good eating.

1/640sec, f9.0, ISO 2000

January 10, 2016

2016-01-10: What I’ve seen this week

Earlier this week, I was getting concerned that I would end up with another weekly post dedicated to deer and bird, birds and deer; so I headed out in the yard with my macro lens to play around a bit and see if I could come across anything interesting. Also, it was simply a gorgeous, brilliant blue sky day, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend fifteen minutes while taking a lunch break from my work. I also got out that evening for a few night sky shots.

Don’t worry though, most of the photos are still deer and birds!

I hope you enjoy my selections for the week. Have a great day!

20160110_What I've seen this week-9 — An older male with lots of scars. I wonder what his story is? Clashes with other males perhaps?

20160110_What I've seen this week-7 — This girl has a very unique left ear… and a hearty appetite for birdseed! She makes quite a mess, but the redpolls and grosbeaks seem to enjoy pecking around in the snow for all the seeds she’s dumped out.

20160110_What I've seen this week-8 — A younger male who happened to be heading into the yard while I was outside with my camera (and refilling the bird feeders). He kept to the bushes, luckily in some beautiful light.

20160110_What I've seen this week-5 — Beautiful light on a beautiful bird – a northern flicker.

20160110_What I've seen this week — It was snowing quite heavily at the start of the week, and this young deer was cloaked in snow from tip to tail. I loved this view though, something a little different.

20160110_What I've seen this week-10 — The young male pausing for a portrait.

20160110_What I've seen this week-11 — My little walking buddy, wanting to get in on the photo action when I took my camera out on a morning walk for a pretty sky at sunrise.

20160110_What I've seen this week-2 — For the past few weeks, I’ve had a few common redpolls every day at the feeders. Early this week though, I ended up with an entire flock in my backyard. Here is a smaller part of the group, all trying to get to the suet cake.

20160110_What I've seen this week-3 — Not a great shot, but I included it anyways just to show a part of the redpoll flock. I counted 28 on the ground, and there were loads up on the feeders as well.

20160110_What I've seen this week-4 — Something startled one of them, and they all scattered. That repeated a few times throughout the morning.

20160110_What I've seen this week-6 — An evergreen with a light dusting of snow.

20160110_What I've seen this week-12 — This could have been so much better, if I hadn’t been too lazy to go to the detached garage and turn off the exterior lights. I’m including this as a reminder to self to take the time to do the proper prep work!