Zoo Hours - Part 2

or A Dispatch From The National Collection of Heads and Horns

A real place, not from an upcoming Wes Anderson film.

I asked, and it would seem that this building contains not a single head nor horn. I then asked where the collection had been moved to but the man I spoke with returned to his leaf blowing.

Here are more of my animal-adjacent photographs from one of the world’s premiere zoos.

In the 5th photo, you will see a swarm of gnats. My son recently taught me that these swarms are called “ghosts” and now I’m teaching you (unless you already knew that, in which case, nice job knowing things). Since learning about ghosts of gnats I’ve been daydreaming about a photo series of these swarms called “Summer Ghosts” or “The Ghosts of Summer” or something along those lines. If you’re thinking “Well that sounds like a boring photo series.” You are right.

Travis

While writing this I was listening to: