We saw several leopards during our safaris in South Africa and Botswana. For the most part, they just ignored us and went about their business. Leopards like being in trees and are great climbers. We encountered this guy walking around and followed him for a bit, until he decided to take a break and pose for us.

This is the view from the top of Northstar looking south towards Lake Tahoe. It’s been a weird ski season, with a distinct lack of snow for the first half of the season. But it’s ending strong, and snow fell for most of the past week. On this day, it had snowed in the morning, but by the afternoon the sun had come out, which made for some great conditions.

On our safari last year, at one point, we took an afternoon canoe trip in Botswana. What this photo doesn’t capture is the mass of bugs that attacked us as we were on the river. The photo originally came out quite poorly because of the challenging lighting, and I’ve had to do a lot of post-processing with Photoshop and other tools. Knowing how to use a camera is only part of the skill set needed to produce pleasing images.

Blog Updates If you haven’t visited Winged Pig in awhile, you may not have noticed that I’ve spruced up the place a bit, as part of the relaunch. The blog has been hosted on Wordpress.com for awhile now, and I continue to be happy with them. I did switch themes, going with the premium Studio Press Minimum theme. Two recent web trends I like are the use of much larger images and the use of better fonts.

Dusting Off The Blog Hello! If you’re reading this, and I assume that you are, you’re probably wondering what this is. This is my newly resurrected blog, which has been gathering dust for the past two years. Two blog years equates to 273 normal years, or 5 minutes at the dentist. Approximately. Regardless, it’s been a long time. Things that have happened since the last post on this blog: Bloglines was sold.