Photo ABCs

Oaxaca: Impressions of the Night, cont.

Oaxaca City Taxi: (click or tap to enlarge, it's a little dark)

CECUT

Still on break from my Oaxaca photos.

Here is a rather abstract picture of the dome of the IMAX theater at the Tijuana Cultural Center, (Centro Cultural de Tijuana, or CECUT), photographed during a visit in August of last year.

"Brewer's Duck"

I will take a break from my Oaxaca pictures. (many more coming!)

This morning I was at Santee Lakes, and noticed a duck unlike the others. As I am now taking a class in waterfowl identification, I recognized it as one of the hybrids we had studied just earlier in the week.

This is a cross between a Mallard and a Wigeon. Audubon actually thought this was a separate, but rare species, and named it Brewer's Duck, after his friend the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880). Later (I'm not sure when), it was determined that it was not a separate species, but a hybrid.

It is not too uncommon, as a similar duck has been seen recently in Orange County, and this particular duck (probably) was photographed at Santee Lakes in November of 2013 by this excellent photographer.

 

Oaxaca, Impressions of the Night, cont.

Cotton Candy:

Oaxaca, Impressions of the Night, cont.

Red Volkswagen:

Oaxaca, Impressions of the Night, cont.

Night Riders:

Oaxaca: Impressions of the Night, cont.

Night Rider:

Oaxaca: Impressions of the Night, cont.

Store Window:

Oaxaca: Impressions of the Night, cont.

Night Walkers:

Oaxaca: Impressions of the Night, cont.

Tree, Shadow, and Colors: (click or tap to enlarge)