Picture This!

Before I get to today's regular installment, I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the Picture This! survey. Your feedback is instrumental in understanding who our readers are and because of that we will be making some fun improvements little by little over time. The results have nudged me into taking a quick trip in May to Walt Disney World to shoot specifically for my blog. I'll be attempting to cover as much as I can of what you'd like to learn more about. Thank you for your support.

Everywhere we look, there is color. When we visit Walt Disney World and other vacation destinations we sometimes are in such a rush to grab FastPasses, hold our favorite parade viewing spots, and fill our autograph books that we miss out on the beauty that surrounds us.

Quite honestly, I never really cared for Animal Kingdom as a whole. Certainly there are some attractions there that I enjoyed but if I skipped the park during my vacation, well it wasn't a big deal. However, during last year's MouseFest I found myself alone with an oppotunity to wander Animal Kingdom and I saw it in a way I hadn't before.

All photos were taken with the Olympus FE-210, a point and shoot camera.

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If one squirting fan bottle was alone, it wouldn't have much of an impact but an entire tub of them makes for eye-catching color patterns.

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The stores of Animal Kingdom are brightly painted in bold vibrant colors. I'm pretty sure we're supposed to think of Africa but the combination gives me flashbacks of all the Art Deco in Miami.

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I found this tree of swatches (prayer flags) in Asia. It's so festive!

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Last but not least, a Blue and Gold Macaw shines in the sunlight against a background of browns and greens.