Hot Rock

The cubs are now about 8 months old. The whole family can't quite fit on the heated rock like they did in the beginning of winter. 10 minutes after I took this picture I went back and saw this. Everyone sound asleep but half the family is in the snow!

Trilobites

Trilobites are organisms that lived in the ancient seas and as you can see there are numerous fossils of all different sizes of these guys. This display is from the Smithsonian Institution.

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History The Sant Ocean Hall

I spent the weekend in Washington DC visiting a close friend from college. I went straight from the bus to the museum of course. I bee-lined it straight to the ocean hall of course. While smaller than the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, they had many real specimens on exhibit. The large blue whale at AMNH is much more impressive however. This photo was taken from the second floor of the museum.

ReBAR Photo Shoot

Ben just bought us a new camera body and I had the pleasure to break it in with a Break Mission photo shoot on Saturday. The camera is GREAT. It is very fast and I can shoot at a much high ISO than we were able to before. All of the shots were at 800! Barely any noise!

This is just a teaser shot. There will be a few more to follow until I finish sorting through and editing all the photos. It was a great way to start my Saturday and break in the new camera. THANKS BREAK MISSION!