Simples

The Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster has only been around a few years, but its ethos of animal welfare and conservation can be seen all across the park.

The first post from the day out are of the Meerkat area.

The first pic is another Yellow Mongoose, looking less Joker-like.

Next to the Mongoose are the Meerkats. (in fact the Mongoose and Meerkat’s seemed to be mingling quite happily.)

This little chap is a Racoon Dog and it walked over to its den and lifted its head up to watch me fiddling with my camera. By the time I composed the shot, it laid down, so I stayed and waited for it to lift its head up again. It obliged.

And lastly, because there’s just something about Meerkats that is adorable, here’s another Meerkat shot.

Why So Serious?

Thought I’d give a sneak peak at an excursion to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park last weekend.

This is a Yellow Mongoose. I don’t know what it’s on, but I want some!

Under the Bridge

There’s graffiti and then there’s graffiti. Sadly, around Leeds there tends to be more ‘so-and-so waz ere’ graffiti than Banksy. That said, I’m a big fan of graffiti done well. Inner city train journey’s are certainly made less boring with a variety of graffiti.

Clearly the tagger has a certain style and flair with the spray can, and I like the green and blue used, but it does lack a certain pazazz. The one below is on the same bridge and is a typical example of common-all-garden inner city graffiti, which is why people view graffiti as a blight on the urban landscape instead of the art form it can be.

Compare the shots above with this snapshot from Memphis. Wouldn’t our cities be brighter with more of this?

A shame, because Leeds, like a lot of cities, has a lot of dull, grey concrete that needs livening up.