Today, Kodachrome the Dog, my beloved 3 year old Japanese Spitz, got to go to the dog park for the first time for a play date with Mahina the Shiba Inu! Mahina’s parents Addison and Gina are fellow photographers, geeks, and Spitz-type lovers, so it was about time we hung out with our fuzzy babies.  Herding Spitzes is like herding cats, but hopefully this will be the first of many times we get these “cousins” together to play and photograph.

Kaeo and I went to the zoo yesterday while we waited for Gabe to get off of work.  While I love my Canon 70-200mm f.2.8 IS, I’m dying for the 100-400mm!  I have the Canon 2x extender, but I’m less than thrilled with the quality of the images it produces in shadowy, low-lighting.  But, I’m not a wildlife photographer, so until I am, I shall make do.

The tiger cubs have gotten so big!  Here’s a photo of one that I too back in January/February:

And here they are now!:

One of the older tigers was napping in the other pen:

One amusing moment was when we saw that a cat had infiltrated the spoonbill exhibit. He was mostly eating the birds’ food, but was also chasing around some of the duck for fun.

Mmm, patterns and contrast and odd-numbered subjects…

And finally, for some reason I often get photos of wild birds at the zoo that I like more than the ones I have of the zoo-birds. For example, my Mejiro photo, taken with my old Digital Rebel about four years ago:

This time, I got a photo of a male cardinal flitting around collecting food from the sidewalk and feeding it to his baby that was following closely behind:

I swear that I will someday make a photo book of all my tiger photos.