FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW and OSCAR MEYER'S WEINER.. THE WEEKEND MUST BE HERE!!

I'm not sure why but I have had song lyrics racing though my mind this whole week. It might have something to do with Idol auditions.  (By the way love, the guy with tourets) But I digress. From the moment I wake up till the time I try and sleep, songs are seeping in. Some are my favorites like Sinatra, Sammy and Dean. Others are songs I have not heard for years. You ever have that happen? You're trying to go to sleep and a song from the Dixie Cups or Sid Vicious just pops in there. (I made up the Sid part. I would not know a Sid song if my life depended on it). It's even worse when it's some commercial you heard earlier that day. It is just disturbing to be in bed with your wife and have the lyrics, "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener,  everyone would be in love with me" running through your head. Have you noticed that as bad as it is to have it in your head, sometimes you can't stop yourself from singing out loud?? You do not even realize it and you hear it and you think, "Hey, that sounds like me, it is me. Hey, I don't sound too bad." Then you see the person next to you suddenly giving you more space,


Ok, enough song lyrics. (I am now going to have that damn song in my head all day).
Well, then I went to Disney and started shooting (that photographer talk for taking photographs). Go ahead use it today. Watch how people will assume you're a photographer. Of course, you run the risk they may call the police instead. The words,  "Yup, I just shot that dude" tends to catch people's attention. 


But, I digress once again. As I was walking through Disney's Wild Kingdom shooting,  the En Vogue song, Free your Mind and The Rest Will Follow', popped into my head.

FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW

BE COLOR BLIND, DON'T BE SO SHALLOW…

FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW
BE COLOR BLIND DON'T BE SO SHALLOW....FREE YOUR MIND!

Actually, it's one of the all time great choruses. I'm not trying to trivialize the lyrics here. On the contrary, they were/are some of my favorites and made an impression on me when I heard them. Wouldn't it be great if we all followed their preaching? If we realized how shallow it is to look at color and make a determination? If someone told you they spent hundreds of thousands of dollar on a new house and you asked why they bought that house and they answered it was because of the color, what would you think of them??? Pretty shallow person? But some people make those type judgements on people based on the same criteria. But yet once more, I digress. Off the soapbox and back to the photography.

So it gave me an idea, I knew that I was in a zoo so why not challenge myself to take some images that would not involve animals: to see if I could capture (more photographer talk) some images that were interesting.

So that is what these images are: my attempt at challenging myself. Did I accomplish what I was trying? I think so. What do you think? Oh and have a great weekend!!

Bamboo trees are all over the grounds in The Wild Kingdom!

The top of a building somewhere in Disney's Wild Kingdom. I was waiting for my family; Phyllis, Paul and Greg  to come out of the restrooms, so I know it was near a restroom. Which one? I do not know, they didn't miss many of them!!

I saw these scarves hanging on a tree limb and I liked the colors and play of the shadows. Why were they there? Hey, it's Disney. A 6 ft mouse just walked by and the scarf didn't seem so out of place.

More bamboo: the lines and color caught my attention. All images were shot with my Nikon 70-200 VR lens. You should have seen people stop and look at the trees, trying to see what I was shooting. See, photography is fun!!