I trekked down to the San Francisco Zoo yesterday hoping to make a some great images of exotic animals. I wasn’t too happy with what I came back with. The lions and tigers slept while I was there, and the bears were behind smudged glass, so those images didn’t come out too well. But the payoff was when I came across the apes and chimpanzees. 
The apes made beautiful images, each of them told their own visual story. Their facial expressions were almost human, and you had to wonder what they were thinking about, as they sat in their enclosures looking back at the people looking at them. The Silverback looked sad most of the time. He retreated inside several times where he couldn’t be seen, and then he sat in the doorway a lot looking at his fellow apes and the people looking at him. Something was up with him. The images of the apes and chimpanzee I imaged can be seen in this. I also posted more images from Bodie, which I went back to last week.
I was supposed to go with another photographer friend, but he got ill, and there were still some images I wanted, so I went back on my own. I plan on at least two more trips to ghost town in the future, but I’m not sure when. It’s odd – most of my life I’ve wanted to go there, and then all of sudden I’ve been there three times in past few months. It really is a beautiful drive there, and the town itself is in a state of arrested decay, whcih is worth seeing. It’s very interesting.
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