Today the SC Aquarium kicked off a new penguin program, the Waddle Wagon. It’s a spiffy little wagon that lets the penguins get out of the Penguin Planet enclosure and into the Aquarium amongst all their adoring fans. Only one or two of the penguins will be in it at a time. Penguin 138 (the youngest one) got to ride in it today.
At the moment, it’s going to be an afternoon program, that will happen at 1:30PM, just before the regular 2PM show and feeding.
There was a pretty decent sized crowd today for being the weekend after Thanksgiving, and everybody seemed pretty excited to get up close to a penguin.
Go check it out! It’s pretty cool!
Fall fun with labs
Today was the Coastal SC Lab Retriever Club‘s annual fall oyster roast. While everybody else was complaining about the weather, I was with a bunch of fellow Lab owners having a great time watching the dogs run and chase each other around, and leaping into the pond to chase after bumpers.
Wish I had remembered to bring my camera with me.
At the Fair
Had a good time at the fair Saturday with some of my fellow photographer friends. There were a total of 8 of us that showed up (at last that showed up at the right meeting spot anyway). Pretty good turnout I’d say.
For Halloween, there weren’t quite as many people dressed up as I thought there might be.
Wandered around and checked out the barrel racing and petting zoo to start off with.
What we were all waiting for though, was the sun to go down though so we could have some fun playing with long exposures and getting pictures of all the lights. Once it got dark, that’s when all the real photography fun started.
This is one of those shots where you set a long exposure and zoom during the exposure. Gets you some interesting effects.
After the show in the big amphitheater, there were fireworks that we just had to photograph. I don’t think there’s a photographer in the world that can resist photographing fireworks.
After the fireworks, it was more midway wandering and playing with lights. For some reason, people kept asking if we were with the newspaper. Can’t imagine why.
There’s supposed to be some bull riding action tomorrow evening, so I think I might be heading back to the fair for some more photos.
Fair photowalking
In the 10 years I’ve been in Charleston, I have never gone to the Coastal Carolina Fair.
This year I’ll be going for the first time, and meeting some fellow photographers there for some photowalking action through the fair on Hallowe’en. It’s bound to be an interesting time and I’m sure there will be lots of things to photograph.
Looking forward to having some fun out there and playing with some long exposure shots. Just need to remember to take my tripod with me.
If you’re interested in joining, meet me at the main gate (or just inside the gate) around 5PM Saturday (Hallowe’en). It’ll be fun!
CHS Tweetup
Had a lot of fun meeting new people at tonight’s @CHSTweetup organized by Christina (@ErgonomixPR) and Kristin (@chasrunner) and held at Bambu over in Mt. Pleasant.
There was some of the usual blogger/Twitter crowd, but also a bunch of new Twitter faces, and even some non-Twitter users (who were of course educated on how interesting and useful Twitter can be). It’s always nice to associate new faces with the Twitter handles.
