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I was at the largest bird park in the world in terms of species yesterday and took a bunch of photos. Since birds can fly away, most of them obviously live in cages. So a lot of times it was impossible to get a picture with no cage at all (in front of the bird) and then sometimes I managed to position my camera in a way that allowed me to blend the cage out. But a lot of times, there were some indications of cage left on the edges (as in this picture at the bottom).

By the way, the owl in this picture is this one.

 
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I took this picture up at Crater Lake the other week. I was very excited to go because I had tried before during the summer and you couldn't see anything there because of all the smoke from the wildfires we had. This day was amazingly gorgeous and clear. It was so beautiful being out there.

I went with my parents and my "uncle" (dad's best friend) when they came out to visit. Besides just the amazing view, snow isn't something most of my family often sees. So it was fun listening to their reactions as well and watching them navigate (or not navigate) the snow. My uncle at several points wound up with snow up to his knees from missteps and took a tumble later. He's fine though - he managed to turn it into a rather impressive somersault. 

It was a fun day all around and I could not have asked for better weather or more beautiful views. :)

 
Because I was guilted into posting a photo because it's been so long, here we go.  

This is from Feb 2021.  The name of the rock, fittingly, is Hollow Rock.  It's just sound of Grand Portage MN, near the Canadian Border.  It was a solid -25F this morning, absolutely frigid.  I had all kinds of issues with my battery getting too cold and dying on me (sign, mirrorless cameras...). 

There ended up being a couple photographers there this morning all there for the sunrise.  Mostly from around Minnesota, but one from the Chicago area who regularly makes his way to the North Shore of Lake Superior and was building a photography community made up of folks from around the Midwest US.  The camaraderie of photographers suffering together in the bitter cold really made enduring it completely worth it.  (that and the photos we all left with...)  

Depending on the day to day temperatures, it is common for ice shards like you see here on the right side of the foreground to form this time of year.  Wave action can usually keep the lake open, but some calm, cold nights you see a layer of ice forming up to an inch thick.  When the morning breeze blows that freshly frozen water into shore, it fractures into these shards and piles them up against one another.  Another example of this ice can be seen here.  

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Taken with my Sony A7ii. 

EDIT: A detail shot from the hole in the rock can be found on Slack in the #photocorner channel.  

 
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