…if you want to see pictures from my visit to the Triple D game farm this summer.  We headed up to Kalispell for two days during the class, Outdoor Photography: Becoming a Professional, at RMSP.  David Middleton was our instructor and is a great teacher.  If you get a chance to take a workshop with him, do it.  You’ll learn a lot. 

We were at the farm for two mornings for about 4 hours.  In that time, I took close to one thousand photos of a grizzly bear, mountain lions, bobcat, adult and baby lynx, snow leopards, porcupine, and several raccoons.  It was an amazing experience.  The animals are treated so well there.  It was obvious that the trainers really care for the animals.  I even saw the grizzly bear (pictured to the left) sucking on his trainers thumb at one point.  The trainer still has his thumb. :)  The same trainer later gave a snow leopard a hug.  Either he’s nuts or he has a great relationship with the animals.  I’m pretty sure it’s the latter.

I will be slowly posting my pictures from this workshop over the next couple of weeks.  This way I’ll have time to go through and process all the pictures I took from my recent trip to California.  I visited San Francisco, saw the Golden Gate Bridge, wandered around downtown San Francisco at night shooting the Christmas decorations and architecture with some Flickr friends, and then visited Yosemite for two days with my friend Pei and her fiance, Eric.  We hiked the Upper Yosemite Falls trail and Mist trail all the way to the top of Nevada Falls, getting snowed on both days.  But, that just made it all the more fun and even more picturesque.  I can’t wait to go back someday.

Oh…and put your hand down.  You look ridiculous.

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