Hall of the Wild

Hall of the Wild
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Bored? Go to a mall and ask the mallrats for permission to pop their zits.

Wild animals present an interesting challenge to photographers: they really don't like cameras. You think your kid sister is bad? Try photographing a disgruntled orangutang. But when it works, it really, really works. Some of these critters were snapped in a zoo, as they are not all indigenous species.

No one has been able to identify the species of hawk in this picture yet, but I don't care. It's a piece of luck that this picture came out as well as it did -- this is an actual, wild hawk.

Seems word spread that I was taking pictures, because the one hawk was soon joined by four others, and they circled progressively closer. If I hadn't run out of film, who knows what could have been? One mighta landed on my head.

Lion... king of beasts? Only if it's judged by laziness. But let's not judge too harshly, now; he's probably a lot more comfortable than YOU are.

Seals are known to be playful creatures, and this one took great delight in sitting up until noticed, then vanishing into the depths without warning or sound.

It's quite amazing to watch seals swim. At times they seem to be powered by thought rather than motion; the water squeezes them along.

So it weighs a quarter ton? Somewhere in the soul of this Siberian tiger, a little kitty is longing for a ball of yarn. Well... maybe not.

This tiger was full of motion. A slow shutter speed added blur to his leisurely pace and the sunlight glistening off his coat completed the surreal image.

I don't know what kind of bird this is, other than it's some sort of waterfowl. It had just been in the drink and was drying its wings when I caught it on film.

These bears at the San Francisco Zoo take sleeping as seriously as I do.