Blue eyed Spider monkey!

Now I know I messed around in photoshop with this photo, but amazingly, the blue eyes are for real.
They call her Ol' Blue Eyes and she lives in Fota Wildlife Park where you can read all about her.
I didn't notice her blue eyes when I was taking the photograph as she was too far away. It was only when I saw them on the laptop and even then I thought it a trick of the light, the blue sky reflected. It is so unexpected.
The idea behind turning it into black and white was to try to high light the blue eyes, but I realise that it actually just discredits them.
I've put in the original photograph below just for the unbelievers!
I do like the black and white though, it reminds me of the old Tarzan movies I loved as a kid.

Thematic Photographic this week is 'Branched'
Well Ol' Blue Eyes would have branched out into the modeling business, given her most unusual features, had she been given half a chance.

Narcissistic Kangaroo

I just realised last night that I was actually a week behind for Thematic photographic
This weeks topic is 'Reflective'
I snapped this kangaroo at Fota Wildlife Park last summer. It reminds me of the story of Narcissus.

A streak of Red Squirrel

I snapped this little fellow at Fota Wildlife Park
Unfortunately the red squirrel is almost as exotic in Ireland as are giraffes and cheetahs!
It was a thrill to get a glimpse of him and believe me that's all it was, they are so tiny and so fast, and perfectly camouflaged in the autumn leaves.
Well not perfectly 'cause they're like a streak of fire when the sun catches them.

Thematic Photographic this week is 'Autumn'

Photos of my furry friends in Fota wildlife park.

"Oh Gawd, here comes yer one again with her camera"



"Just act dumb"



Outa hear



Does this one remind anybody else of Circus McGurkus?



What, was it something I said!



"Figaro,figaro,figarooooh......



"mnaah..what can I tell ya...on de one hand it's dis on de other it's dat..."

Thematic Photographic 'Nature'

I'm taking part in Thematic Photographic, where a topic is posted every Wednesday evening.
This week it's 'Nature'
Well this little Ring tailed lemur is living, not quite as nature intended, on Fota Wild Life Park.
He's obviously missing his native Madagascar sun, or else he's been reading the tabloids where everybody seems to be using the sunbeds!

I'm not one for zoos myself but Fota Wild Life Park is exceptional and the only thing the animals complain about is the weather, but then so do the rest of the Irish population!

These Madagascar lemurs are my favourites, they're so full of character and mischief. They are an endless source of inspiration

Happy Easter Eggs

"Whadaya mean did I really get an easter egg, Dan it was this big I'm tellin' ya."


"Oh man Larry, I'd have settled for one this size just so's I could say I got one from the bunny too."

Larry took great delight in teasing poor old Dan who really wasn't the sharpest tool in the box!
Hope you all got your eggs though:)

I spliced these two guys together from photos I took at Fota wildlife park last week.
It's actually the one lemur posing for all four.

The Boss

Man, I'd love a beer.



BABE COULD YOU BRING ME A BEER.



WADDAYA MEAN THERE'S NONE



Relax dear, I'll give you a massage instead



OUCH BLOODY OUCH get away from me woman

Giraffe Family, Mother and Child

I'm entering this photograph in the Guardian newspaper's weekly In Pictures photography competition.
The topic this week is Family.
I snapped this tender moment between mother and child last week at Fota Wildlife Park.

Siamang Gibbons at fota wildlife park

Siamangs are the largest of the Gibbons.
Their natural habitat is high in the tree tops of the rainforest's of south east Asia.
But these two can be seen in Fota Wildlife Park along with the rest of the family.
A long way from home then, but at least the rain shouldn't bother them, if only we had the tropical heat to go with it!

Pelicans at Fota wildlife park

Just 'cause he pelly well can

A few furry friends at Fota Wildlife Park

Having a picnic


Just hanging around.



Squirrel monkey


Ring tailed lemur