Photography from around the world by Andreas Welch.
This summer we went to the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina. The games were interesting, containing a variety of vendors and competitions. Over the next week or two I’ll post the various series from there, but to start with here are some general pictures from the games.
The Roanoke Zoo also has a small, but excellent aviary. Probably not more than 20×20 feet, there’s a variety of birds that are obviously used to humans, calm, and beautiful.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this, but it sounded interesting so I figured I’d give it a try. Have a look around, enjoy the pictures and feel free to comment. At the bottom of each of my posts there’s a link to the Flickr gallery containing more pictures of that type.
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Roanoke’s zoo is small, but excellent. They make excellent use of the space that they have available and focus on animals that don’t take up a huge amount of room. It’s one of the best zoos that I’ve ever visited. I especially liked their red panda display and got what I think are some excellent pictures from it.
We had a very limited time to visit the Science Museum, so we focused primarily on the Aquarium. We also went up to see the “living roof” and had a meal in the restaurant (not the cafeteria). The food was excellent, probably the best food on the trip, if a little pricey. Well worth it though.
Another “must visit” in my opinion. We spent several hours here and it’s central to other locations. Very pretty and nice to visit.
We had a recurring “visit” in San Francisco. Several places we visited were in close proximity and within the territory of this hawk.
No trip to San Francisco is complete without at least seeing the Golden Gate Bridge. We didn’t really have any interest in crossing it, or getting up close, so we chose to do this from Lincoln Park.
The San Francisco Arboretum was exceptional. A variety of beautiful plants that were well maintained and easy to photograph. Come prepared to sweat though, a couple of the rooms have extremely high humidity and very warm temperatures. It took several minutes on transitions for the camera to fully adjust. I’m very happy with the number of good shots I got from this shoot. As usual, I’ve only selected a few for here. If you don’t usually visit the flickr sets, I encourage you to do so this time (link at the end of the post).
