Scott Craig

Zoo Photo Safari

Scott — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:36:33 +0000

The Nashville Zoo occasionally has “Photo Safaris”. The name is somewhat misleading since we don’t “Safari” anywhere however they do bring out some of their education animals, those that are not normally on exhibit, for us to photograph. This is the second one I have been to, photographs from the first are Here.
First up was a Pygmy Screech Owl. He was injured once and came to the zoo from Walden’s Puddle.

Next up were a couple of easily-recognizable animals:

Fourth was a magnificent Bengal Eagle Owl named Archimedes. You can find a couple of other shots of him Further Down This Page that I took in January, 2011.

The sunlight caused him to squint and hid his magnificent orange eyes however if you follow the link above to photos of him farther down the page those shots show them in all their glory!

And finally was an African Serval named Billy.

There are a many other photos taken at the Nashville Zoo on This Page of my photography web site.

A Few (more) From The Zoo

Scott — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:39:47 +0000

Like last weekend I went by the Nashville Zoo for a while today. It was ostensibly to get some exercise for my back per my doctor’s recommendation, but also like last weekend I wasn’t without my camera!

There are a many other photos taken at the Nashville Zoo on This Page of my photography web site.

Zoo Walk

Scott — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:22:12 +0000

My doctor told me to get out and walk around some to help the pain in my back so I decided that walking around the zoo with a camera only made sense.

There are a many other photos taken at the Nashville Zoo on This Page of my photography web site.

Another Tennessee Winter

Scott — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:57:51 +0000

Yes, I am still around and shooting, I just haven’t been posting a lot of photographs here. A lot of them have been going onto my New Web Site as opposed to here, and to be honest I really haven’t been shooting anything very interesting.

I did get some good shots of a Blue Heron at Couchville Lake late last year:

A Common Loon on Radnor Lake one morning:

Some Snowy Owls and Spectacled Owls at the Nashville Zoo:

And some Ring-Billed Gulls at Centennial Park:

All of these and more are on This Page of my web site.

Spring is coming soon and things will start to pick up. There are Hunter’s Auto Expo and another Photo Safari at the Nashville Zoo in March, Kars for Kids in April, and an Airshow and the Tennessee Renaissance Festival in May. While this has been a remarkably mild winter in Tennessee I am still ready for spring. As usual I’m tired of brown trees and gray skies and am ready for some green in the trees and blue in the skies!

Making Some Changes

Scott — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:08:53 +0000

I’m making some changes to my web site and I’m not 100% certain how I am going to structure things yet. I registered the domain at www.SC-Photo-TN.com for most of my photography pages and I’m not certain how I am going to incorporate this blog into that site. I may move these pages to the new site, I may just leave them here. I’m really undecided at this point.

So far my efforts have been to move my “Tennessee In Photography” pages to the new site since that is actually its purpose. There are a lot of photographs and a lot of effort involved in those pages so I’ve been busy with that. I also keep adding new photographs so I really haven’t given this blog the attention it needs for the past few weeks.

I’ll figure out something but I don’t know what that will be yet.

Backyard Friends

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:24:37 +0000

We have a permanent population of Gray Squirrels that live around our house. I think I could sit and watch their antics all day long, even though they can empty my bird feeder in a day or so. Below are a couple of photographs of them. Notice that the squirrel in the second photo must be a “High Society” squirrel since he holds his pinkie finger out while he eats.

Hoot Owl

Scott — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:56:50 +0000

I bought a new lens last week and was walking around Radnor Lake on Sunday taking photographs of Bluebirds and Woodpeckers. While walking back to the parking lot I saw a flash of white wings in the woods beside me and looked over to see a large Barred Owl (more commonly known as a Hoot Owl) sitting on a limb beside the road.

He was about 25′ from me and wasn’t real concerned about me taking his photograph or the other people who stopped to look. His eyes kept closing so I suspect he was just winding down from a night’s hunting. Whatever the reason I was thrilled that he chose that exact moment to land on that exact limb since this was the first time I’ve ever seen an owl in the wild.

Edit – November 12, 2011 – I was at Radnor Lake again this morning and while walking down the road I was saying to myself, “Right about here is where I saw that Owl last week.” I looked up on the limb he was sitting on last week and lo and behold there he was again so I had to take a few more photos of him. This makes twice in my life I’ve seen an Owl in the wild.

Looking at the trees in the background it is easy to see how much the trees have changed in the past week. Last weekend they were full of color and this weekend there are very few leaves left. Winter is drawing close.

There are some other photographs of this bird on This Page of my web site.

Arizona Again

Scott — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:28:49 +0000

I flew to Arizona to visit friends again in mid-October but I had an ulterior motive this time. The NHRA Arizona Nationals were at Firebird Raceway that weekend and I wanted to see it.

We also visited the Desert Botanical Gardens, one of my favorite places in Phoenix, to view some huge wooden insects and an enclosure full of Monarch Butterflies.

As always my hosts are what made it so great. Without you guys it would have been a hollow and boring trip.

There are other photographs from this trip on This Page of my web site.

22nd Annual AACA Car Show

Scott — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:13:45 +0000

The 22nd Annual Antique and Classic Car Show put on by the Battlefield Region AACA was held today at Cool Springs Mall. I missed the first 21 events so I figured I would go by this one for a while.

It was a huge event with a couple of hundred cars on display. Everything from antiques to exotics, perfectly restored and adding their own brilliance to a beautiful fall day.

There are other photographs from this event on This Page of my web site.

WERA Motorcycle Roadracing – Fall 2011

Scott — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:27:24 +0000

The WERA boys were back in Nashville for their second race of the year. Unfortunately it will be the last time since the Nashville Superspeedway is closing down permanently in October. It was great having you guys here.

Lots of additional photographs from this event on This Page of my web site.