Mother/Daughter

I’m usually of the opinion that taking pictures of animals at the zoo is kind of cheating, but when there’s a week-old baby giraffe to see, it’s hard to resist. Even though I have the unwanted but unavoidable “through the chainlink fence” motif going on here, the mother/daughter vibe in this photo is so strong that the fence even kind of enhances it, in it’s own way. In any case, I like the photo a lot, though I still thirst for the challenge of photographing real wild animals (though I’d probably need an expensive plane ticket and an expensive pile of glass to do that).

Tearful

 

Oddly enough, this is a picture of a cat. Just a stray we found walking around Glover Garden, in Nagasaki. It looks really sad to me.

One thing that amazes me about Japan is their utter defiance of any erosion of history (that isn’t of their own design). At Yoshinogari Koen, they rebuilt millennia old houses based on suggestions of structures they uncovered. Much of Nagasaki was consumed in the conflagration following the atomic bomb, but they rebuilt the historic dutch homes exactly like they once were (and, apparently, replanted this garden).