Tai Shan at National Zoo

I photographed Tai Shan at the National Zoo four days before he left for his new life in China. It was a sad, but also a joyful occasion. I hiked over to the Zoo on a sunny, but very cold day to say good-bye and take some photographs of my favorite Zoo animal. My quest for photographing animals started at the age of sixteen. The Zoo offered a quiet and tranquil place for me to explore my creative nature. Photographing animals at the Zoo gave me valuable experience in preparation for eventually photographing animals in their natural habitat.