RickyG

My Buddy

My Buddy

I am a primate keeper and "King" (photographed here) is one of the primates I care for...
I have worked with many different exotic animals, but gorillas ...
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I am a primate keeper and "King" (photographed here) is one of the primates I care for...
I have worked with many different exotic animals, but gorillas are by far the coolest!
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May, 2008

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Absolute Masterpiece

a perfect shot - great detail - Can I meet King ???

this shot is so cool

Love it!

PRO

fantastic- captures the personality- such expression

I never thought of doing a portrait of an animal....this photo is priceless.

A great shot!!

AWESOME!!! I so envy you, getting to be so close and work with such a magnificent animal. Perfect capture! Love it.

PRO

FANTASTIC!!!! I would love to know what he is thinking...You must have such an amazing job.

Very kingly indeed! Love his facial expression! a very confidant and proud fellow!

PRO+

Wonderful shot to match your wonderful job! :~)

Nice

What an amazing photograph. You totally captured his mood...and may I say what a wonderful job you have.

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

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Taken a couple years ago at a zoo.

This is a young "super tiger" morph of reticulated python. Shot indoors in a makeshift studio for a buddy's reptile website.

A curious squirrel monkey interested in my camera.

This is Amber, one of the cougars I have raised. This photo was taken in late 2005. I decided to have a little photoshop fun to emphasize her lashing

Actually they are not posed. I just wanted to post this for the conversation in the critique community about my "posed" monkeys.
I'm not really offe

Self described... He looks miserable! : (

Yellow ratsnake in the Everglades National Park.

This is a nosy one of the free ranging long-tail macaques at my work curiously peeking down from a wall leading to a supply closet. Theres something a

I found this little guy along with many others nearby at a lake in the Everglades. I belive its a young sothern toad, but these were more pale than ot

A young squirrel monkey spotlit by the sunlight peering through the trees.

Here's a flyover shot of a black necked stilt at a wetland near my house.

These birds seem to elude me. They aren't very common. I got this shot in northern Key Largo in a shallow water mangrove swamp. Thanks for looking!

Miami at night with the Rickenbacker causeway in the foreground.
I angled the camera on my tripod to fit in most of the bridge and for a new perspect

Self described... Florida Everglades.

I went out to a pineland this morning and saw at least 10 of these feral cats. Most were skittish, but this one was checking me out.
Thanks for looki

I got this shot earlier this evening in the Everglades National Park. My buddy Paul was with me and all excited because he rarely gets a photo opportu

Photo of a red shoulder hawk taken in the Big Cypress Preserve here in Florida.

A green anole hiding behind a bromeliad leaf.

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