Behind The Scenes - Again
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This is a Black-footed penguin. This room dedicated The Penguin Encounters experience.
Interesting fact - Newport Aquarium goes through 22,000 pounds of food each month. Most would guess that the sharks consume the most food. The truth is the penguins consume the most food. Penguins eat 20% of the body weight, whereas sharks only eat 2 - 3% of their body weight. A penguins diet includes small fish such as pilchards, sardines, anchovies small crustaceans and squid.
Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind The Scenes Tour
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This is the shark tank filter room. This is an entire room dedicated strictly to the filtration system for the Surrounded by Sharks tank.
Interesting fact - The tanks contains 385,000 gallons of water. About every 2 hours, every single drop of water in that tank passes through this filtration system.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind the Scenes
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This is the food prep area. This the fish oil that they have to give “Sweet Pea” and “Scooter”. Yes you read that correctly, they give fish oil to a shark. The same fish oil that helps you and I have a healthy heart enables the sharks to swim.
<b>Interesting fact</b> - Unlike bony fish, sharks do not have gas-filled swim bladders for buoyancy. Instead, sharks rely on a large liver, filled with oil that contains squalene. The buoyant liver may constitute up to 30% of their body mass. When in captivity, their keepers have to ensure that they receive enough oil to be able to remain buoyant.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind the Scenes Tour
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This is the food prep area. Here this gentleman is prepping lobster for the sharks “Sweet Pea” and “Scooter”.
Interesting facts - the sharks get the lobsters and the turtle, whose name I forgot, gets the claws. Newport Aquarium has the only shark ray breeding program in the world. Newport Aquarium only serves restaurant quality, certified USDA FDA food to it’s animals. Yes, you could be eating those pounds of lobsters.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Surrounded
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“Hey I got an idea. Why don’t I lie down on the ground and we get everyone to circle around and look down at me and I’ll take a picture.”
“Ok” (sounding of running feet)
“Hmmm…this isn’t as easy as I thought and this blue playground stuff sure does attract heat.”
Sometimes an idea doesn’t work as planned but it is fun trying. I love how their faces have a range of emotion on them.
That “Something”
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Some of my favorite pictures are my favorites because in them they capture that “something”. Whether it be a smile, a twinkle in their eyes, a glimpse of their personality - there is that “something” that draws you to the picture.
This picture has that “something” to me - the lighting in the background, the shades of green, and the expressions on their faces.
Silly Faces
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When your assignment is to take photos of 7 kids 9 years old and under, you get a little nervous no matter who the kids are. For me, I wonder how on earth am I going to be able to capture all of their attention at once? But at the same time it’s a blast. You see their personalities open up and you just go with the flow.
Oh and it helps to let them burn off a little energy making crazy faces.
Hope
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I have a thing for words. If you were to come to my house you would find “hope” above the door and “love” and “dream” waiting for their places on the wall. You would see pictures of the words grace, smile, love and dream in my bedroom. Words paint a picture to me.
When I think of kids, I think of hope. Hope for their future. Hope for their today. I anticipate what they are bringing to the table of life. Hope is also something that comes to mind when I think of families. (Not to mention Tonni’s blog is Hope Has Returned).
So posing the family with the word hope just seemed fitting.
Aww…
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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of taking pictures for 2 sisters. Between the 2 sisters there were 7 kids. It was a blast. I wanted to start out the shoot and get each kid on their own in the same general spot. I love this particualr bridge and bench at Sharon Woods. There is something about the texture and color of the area that I just think makes for a great picture.
How about I just hush and let the picture speak for itself this time.
When Moms Get Attacked
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This past Saturday I had the pleasure of taking photos of two adorable familes. I will showcase some of their pictures over the course of the next week but I just had to share this little video.
Right before I took pictures of the sisters (aka the moms) together I gathered all the kids around and told them when I said the magic words to run at their moms and smother them with kisses.
This is what happened, frame by frame.