Sunday Nature Stills – 06/05/2022

Posted on by Michael Fuchs Photography
It’s neat to see the emotions and social structure of other animal groups.  This is a photograph that I took in the Serengeti when we came across a herd of elephants.  The young elephant on the left was previously playing with a baby elephant and got a little rough.  In this picture, the adult female on the right is telling it to knock it off and calm down.  After I took this picture, the young elephant started pouting and wandered off moping.  If you are out in the world for a while, you start to see that human behavior isn’t really all that exclusive to humans.  We are just one group on a long list of complicated, self-aware, creatures.

Sunday Nature Stills – 05/29/2022

Posted on by Michael Fuchs Photography
There is something neat about spending time with things in nature that transcend human lifespans.  These bristlecone pines are some of the oldest known individual living tree species.  Some trees in this grove are over 4,700 years old.  It’s neat to think of these trees as little seedlings 200 years before the pyramids at Giza were built. Although some of the bristlecone groves are very well known, it is neat to run across a small grove in the middle of nowhere in the high mountains. A few times we have sat in a grove and had lunch while out hiking high in the Sierras, and it’s just neat to think of how our modern world is just a tiny moment in time to the tree we are sitting next to.