30. March 2008 by Anthony Lindner.

Well, I’ve been nursing my knee injury for about two weeks now and I’ve been suffering from a severe case of cabin fever. Jessica, my girlfriend who was probably fed up with my attitude, finally demanded that we leave the house. So she took me to the Cape May Zoo. I love this zoo, mostly because it isn’t crowded, even on busy days. They have an impressive number of species for your viewing pleasure, including all of the kid favorites: a lion, cheetahs, giraffes, black bears, and zebras! It was good to get away from the house for a few hours.

At the front of the zoo, there was a pen for some of the zoos newest arrivals: two pot-bellied pigs. Jessica instantly fell in love. They were “snorting” and prancing around their little pen. Every once and a while they would come up to the fence and stand on their hind legs so they could smell your feet and your hands. Jessica would have been quite content to put one of them in her purse and take him home.

Now, I’ve been to the Cape May Zoo quite a few times and over the years I’ve come to notice that other than the lone male lion, the big cats at the zoo are quite happy to just sleep and show no signs of life. Yesterday, this was not the case. We got to see a cheetah speed along its fence trying to catch a guinea hen in the adjacent pen. They are fast, TV shows do no justice for these animals. Seeing them run in person is amazing. Also, we got to see the lion roar! It was incredible. The sound is loud enough to be heard throughout the park. We also got to see an ocelot roam his pen, a sleepy leopard, and pooped bobcat.

I love zoos; they are a great place for photographing “wild” animals. Jessica and I have done some traveling and we usually work in the local zoos and aquariums in our journeys. Our list now includes: Baltimore Aquarium, Cape May Zoo, Tampa Bay Aquarium, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Sea World San Diego. So if you like the shows on the National Geographic channel where you journey out into the savanna for a rare glimpse at some amazing creatures, don’t think that you have to spend thousands on an African expedition. You’d be surprised at the number of photographic opportunities awaiting you at your local zoo.

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21. March 2008 by Anthony Lindner.

Someone I know recently asked me if I could scan some pictures. The pictures were from yearbooks of an early childhood development center. In the pictures were students from a teacher who is now retiring. I had no problem completing the task for this person. After scanning the roughly 20 pages or so, a strange idea popped into my head. In the yearbook’s were individual black and white pictures of all the students for a particular year. I started to arrange these individual pictures in a flower shape. I started with the actual flower pedals, working my way to the center. In the center of the flower I placed a picture of the retiring teacher. I then created a stem and leaves in the same manner. Now this was still all in black and white and the effect isn’t what I thought it would be. I then started to experiment with lightly coloring the individual pictures, which, in my opinion, really made the overall image start to “pop.” I showed the person who asked me to do the scanning, and she seemed to really like it. I find instances like this funny. My original intention was to just help by scanning the pictures. I ended up finding inspiration and motivation to try to create something. I hope the teacher likes it, I don’t know the teacher, but anyone who is retiring I kind of envy.

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19. March 2008 by Anthony Lindner.

What purpose doe a photographer have for a blog on his portfolio website? That is a fair question. I just wanted to present myself as something more than an abstract. I want to become human to those who don’t know me. With just my website, I’m just that guy who sits behind the camera. Hopefully, through this blog, I can introduce myself to those that have only interacted with me through email. Well, this is my introduction. My name is Anthony Lindner. I started suffering from a photographic addiction when I was first given a Polaroid instant camera when I was younger. Later, with the advent of digital technology, I became hooked again. I primarily photograph sporting events because I enjoy the challenge of nailing the shots at the peak of the action. However, I do enjoy bright, vibrant colors found in many places, such as flowers, balloons, kites, and frogs. I am the geek behind the lens. I am comfortable with that description, because when people look at my prints, they are always amazed.

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