Great Thanks: to all the family, friends, and photography buffs who visited the Sleeping Wolves throughout 2007.

Wishing you all the best for 2008 and leaving you with these Raptor shots taken on December 24th. Cheers.

Very sad news this morning regarding Tatiana, the beautiful female Siberian tiger we photographed in SF this summer.

SAN FRANCISCO — One zoo visitor was mauled to death and two others severely injured when a Siberian tiger escaped from its grotto at the San Francisco Zoo early Christmas evening and went on a bloody rampage in front of terrified zoo patrons.

The tiger – the same animal that chewed a keeper’s arm during an attack last December – was shot to death outside a zoo cafe by four officers who managed to distract the animal as it mauled one of its victims. Source: San Francisco Chronicle

This shot was from the trip – Tatiana (4-year-old female) and Tony (the male) – August 15th, 2007.

To the visitors of the Sleeping Wolves: Merry Christmas, belated Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Quanza, Merry Flying Spaghetti Monster Day, Happy Festivus – whatever you celebrate, wishing you all the best during the Holiday Season.

I’ve been there before, many times. BSODs (Blue Screens of Death) or worse: complete failure, inability to boot. I’m sure you have too. In fact, you grow to expect this when working with any Windows (Winblows) OS – that’s how bad they are.

This time I got the notorious “Invalid Boot.ini” message. It happened after performing some routine maintenance using Microsoft’s Chkdsk utility. For some reason known only to Bill Gate’s entourage, Chkdsk was unable to run to completion. It left a cryptic message about bad sectors, and then it totally froze – forcing a power-off.

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Vancouver: Dec 2nd – Dec 5th, 2007.

It’s a cold Decembrrrr. Last Sunday a big storm was coming to whitewash the Canadian East Coast. That’s where this wolf photographer is based. Another storm was already hammering the crap out of our West Coast. Well that’s where I was headed, specifically beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

My Air Canada flight left on time Sunday at 8 PM. Although the storm had not yet hit Montreal, very strong eastward winds would mean a stop in frigid Winnipeg for refueling. This resulted in significant delays for what was scheduled to be a 5 hour trip.
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