Smile For The Camera

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

Roger Caras

Elephant

This is an Asian elephant that's at the Santa Barbara Zoo, smaller than their African cousins, they are highly endangered. Elephants are the worlds largest land animal.  Asian elephants can be identified by their smaller, rounded ears. These  elephants have a fingerlike  feature on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. The trunk of an elephant is used for smelling, breathing, drinking and also garbing a potential meal. Elephants can consume about 300 pounds of food a day; they eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things. 

Gorilla

These are several images I took of the gorillas at the Santa Barbara Zoo. These creatures are one of the most popular animals to visit there. Not knowing what they will do next, you have to be ready to capture their facial expressions on camera. Gorilla's seem to have their own personalities as they pose for their observer. The one gorilla had a very peaceful innocent expression on its face as it sat there holding his hands and looking up toward the sky. Another gorilla gave me a serious, death stare as I photographed him eating, and the last image is of one of them peering over at me as he walked by.