Life with Dylan

Category: photography

  • Wordless Wednesday – Floating the day away

    After hours of playing in the pool, sometimes all you need to do is float. 

  • Why you need to keep taking those pictures …

    We all take pictures of our children – it’s what parents do. Birthday parties, holidays, vacations and now with cell phone cameras, there isn’t a reason we can’t snap a picture at any time of the day or night. Sometimes we think we take too many pictures and sometimes our children don’t want us to take their picture.

    Well, the next time your child says No more pictures Mom! – think again.

    Last night I was looking through old pictures on the computer and realized that sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Sometimes a picture, no matter how many times you have taken the same picture, same pose, same location … is priceless.

    The sign stayed the same, but boy did my son grow up! Not to mention the tress and the plants.

    Yep, he always wants to pose in the tree by the hippos. I won’t be telling him not another picture in the tree anymore.

    This has got to be one of my favorite “then and now” pictures from the San Diego Zoo. Ever since he was a toddler, he asks to eat at the Treetop Cafe – at his table. Yes, he actually believes that this is his table and we always sit here. In all the times we have visited the San Diego Zoo, these are the only two pictures I have of him at his table … now I’m wishing I had taken more.

    So wherever your “picture spot” may be, keep taking those pictures. There is a reason you stop each time to take a picture here – and nothing is more priceless than watching your child grow up in photographs.

  • Wordless Wednesday – I made this

    I hated having to wake him on his second day of summer vacation, but I’m not on vacation until next week. He looked so peaceful sleeping as the morning sun lit up his room.

    No matter how old he gets, I love watching him sleep. 

  • Wordless Wednesday – Magnificent Jellies

    The tentacles on these jellyfish reminds me of silly string.

     Photos taken on a recent trip to Aquarium of the Pacific.

  • Wordless Wednesday – Koala Kisses

    If this isn’t love between a mother and child, then I don’t know what is.

    So honored to have my photograph featured on the San Diego Zoo’s Tumblr page alongside so many amazing photographers.

  • Wordless Wednesday – Stop and see nature

    The other day Dylan and I were walking through a parking lot and I noticed some beautiful yellow hibiscus flowers. I walked over to take a picture and noticed something amazing.

    There were hundreds of ladybugs and other insects, which I do not know the name of, crawling all over the leaves and stems of the hibiscus plant. We ended up standing there for almost 15 minutes just watching. It was fascinating!

    Some people say stop and smell the roses – I say stop and see nature.

  • San Diego Zoo Safari Park in pictures

    A few of my favorite pictures from our trip to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park earlier this month.

    I love the reflection in the water

    The view from Condor Ridge is breathtaking

    Just look at the wingspan!

    Staying cool in the shade

    Happiness is touching a gorillas hand

    Bats – Cute or creepy? I haven’t decided yet. 

    Under the watchful eye of Mom

    I think it’s nap time

    Sleeping cheetah

    This has got to be one of my favorite Dylan shots – Hamming it up for the camera.

    I must save the jeep so I can protect the animals!

    Sometimes pictures say more than words and these beautiful animals make wonderful subjects.
    The pictures may speak volumes, but the animals can’t speak and they need your help. Get involved with wildlife conservancy and help bring species back from the brink of extinction.