I love going back through my photo archives and finding things I haven’t shared on this website before, including this photo from a trip to Disney World in 2012. My wife and her family were Disney Vacation Club members, so we got to stay in a lot of great places near the parks when we visited. On this trip we were staying in either Boardwalk or Beach Club (I forget), and I brought my camera along to capture some evening Disney light magic. The blue hour light was perfect, and I was able to get a fantastic framing back towards the lighthouse and boardwalk with the yellow lights contrasting the blue sky.

My wife’s family has a long history of visiting Disney World, and I’ve now been more times than I can count. Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a special treat for zoo lovers for both the number of amazing animals and the quality of their enclosures. The gorillas occupy a vast hilly area with lots of room to move and separate areas for the male bachelors and the females. One of those enclosures opens up to a windowed area where it’s possible to see them up close, sometimes really close.