Pen-Guin

I do not know why, but I have always been more comfortable looking through the viewfinder of a camera rather than being posed with the camera pointing at me. Maybe the perception of what the two dimensional picture will make me look like. Maybe I realized one day I now look older! Regardless, I needed a solution. That solution is my travel buddy- Pen-Guin. We met in the gift shop of the Shed Aquarium in Chicago and have been mostly inseparable ever since. He is always happy to be in a photos- even if somewhat bedraggled from being stuffed in the pocket of a camera bag. He is also fearless when posed on railings or less than stable zodiacs. Other the years- we have added a few friends for him. Most recently, he missed the plane to Montreal and so we adopted a a new friend for him at the Biodôme.