A few nice images of animals images I found:
Late light bathes these Northern Elephant Seal denizens of Piedras Blancas
Image by mikebaird
Late light bathes these Northern Elephant Seal denizens of Piedras Blancas, including mothers and their pups born within the past one-to-three weeks.
Northern Elephant Seals (M. angustirostris) at Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, CA 12 Jan 2012, taken in late light, a few minutes before sunset. At Piedras Blancas light is everything. I shot hundreds of images all day long starting at noon, and the only six keepers (taken at the main south viewing area) were taken in the last 20 minutes before the sun set below the horizon. I saw dozens of new borns, a few births, lots of early attempts at mating, and a few Alpha male bull battles, not all that violent and bloody, in for dominance and defense of harems. The beach was crowded with a mass of elephant seals, a must-see exhibition.
Photo © 2012 “Mike” Michael L. Baird, mike {at] mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com, Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21.1MP Full Frame CMOS Digital SLR Camera with Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras, with Circular Polarizer, and finally a RRS BH-55 sufficient-sized ball-head on a lightweight Gitzo tripod, RAW, IS on.
All the keepers in this set of six photos were shot wide open at f/2.8, ISO 400, nothing longer than 1/160th second.
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keywords: 12Jan2012,elephant seal, Northern Elephant Seal,M. angustirostris, piedras blancas, san simeon, Mammal,blancas,
Note: EXIT time is off by one hour too late as I must have forgotten to adjust for the end of daylight savings time.
Venice. Old Lion from St. Mark's
Image by Cornell University Library
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01429
Title: Venice. Old Lion from St. Mark's
Photographer: Carlo Naya (Italian, 1816-1882)
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1875
Location: Europe: Italy; Venice
Materials: albumen print
Image: 10.6299 x 13.9764 in.; 27 x 35.5 cm
Style: Byzantine
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5tn3
There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
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