Critters - Thematic Photography

I showed two local critters last week under the 'Summer' theme. Before I started today I had to check just what a critter was - a living creature I found out, a creature being an animal other than a human.That restricted me as I could not, I thought, consider birds and reptiles.

Giraffe in a Yorkshire wildlife park (c1970)

Foal - Norway (1980s)

He or she will be quite an age by now.

I wouldn't happy to be in the water with a beast like this.

Hippo (Detroit Zoo 2006)

I would however have been quite content to have a ride on these - 

Donkeys preparing for a days work (Whitby 2008)

But they said I was too old!

Lambs (Egglescliffe,  March 2006)

From the rear end of a donkey and that uncooperative lamb I'm left with a ewe that must be on Facebook.

Ewe and its lamb (June 2014)

But don't you just hate it when they show off they have been tagged.

Tagged and shorn (not Shaun)

For other contrary critters follow the links at Carmi's thematic-photographic-299.

Strangers - Thematic Photography

Strangers in my photos are there for a variety of reasons. On Brunel's SS Great Britain it was the anchor I was interested in.

Anchor for SS Great Britain 

No matter how I tried for a picture of the anchor in the Bristol dry dock under the bows of the ship, strangers got in the way.

In other pictures the stangers are needed as an integral part of the action like this one shot in Norway.

A Foal's Feeding Time

In Germany this street scene would not be complete without all the strangers involved.

Freiburg Street Market

My final photo is one where the strangers had to be included although the dogs were the stars for me.

Forest of Dean Dog Show - Judge under pressure?

For other 'Strangers in Paradise' photography visit them here on Carmi's blog