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Here's one from the "Now there's something you don't see every day" department - We were about to leave the Plumpton Park Zoo. I visited the last cage, a sad looking Canadian Lynx, and looked further down the path at the Giraffe enclosure. We saw him earlier, and I lamented that there wasn't a good place to take a clear shot of him. From every perspective I had seen, there was a large amount of wire fencing in the way. But with the last glance, I noticed that there was an opening we hadn't seen. So I went up to take a look and he stood there very stoically, but he was alert and interested in what I was doing. Then something caught his eye on the ground and I got a shot of this pose. It just struck me as funny to see such a tall elegant creature in such an awkward position.
The scene is backlit but, not wanting a silhouette for this one, I metered on the bird which bleached the sky. In an attempt to present the shot better, I coloured the background but wish I'd feathered my selection of it to lessen the stark white of the backlit edges. Not worth returning to, though, so onward ever onward!
I took these the same day I took the color photos of the abandoned farmstead. This is the back stoop into the house and goes up into the kitchen.
I looked around and I saw a house awash with the glow from these lights. I noticed it had red trim, just like my hat. But what was that? A stoop! A stoop that I recognised, a beautiful stoop; it was Aaron's stoop! I held fast to my little backpack, full of souvenirs and food from my wonderful journey and ran across the street, up the steps to Aaron's house and, as I resumed my post guarding Aaron's stoop, I finally felt at home.