Recently we have had some strange weather in LA. First it was really hot, but now it is:
chilly and... (this is a bad picture, but I heve learned that with children and animals you shoot first and then adjust your camera parameters later. This little guy was up on that rock for a while, moving his (her?) head towards the sun, and then looking back at people. By the time I adjusted for high light, he was gone back to his little lamp heated bed.
...very, very dry. This is not an action shot. He actually stopped at this point, and as about to get up. But his hair?! Everybody around was laughing hard... his hair was standing up straight - even his curles were gone - from all the static electricity in the air!
These pictures were taken at the LA Zoo - the children playground is really fun for the kids, but they had notices leftover since the heatwave - the playground was aactually closed because the metal parts (basically everything!) was so hot it was causing burns. Hello? This is LA, and LA Zoo is in one of the hottest areas of LA, and they build a metal playground that heats up so much? It's not that the high temperatures were so high - we get high temperatures during summer months too... anyway...