I like the zebra photo too. And Great Adventure (aka Six Flags) is an awesome park! :)

Weighing in late to say it's a lovely and artistic photo!

Very artsy---I love it both the composition and the colors. And that Bethany girl is pretty cool, too!

The blurred stripe of the pic complements the zebras stripes! Remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It does not suck. But I feel a little woozy now. Perhaps you're trying to hypnotize us? Hypnotize the masses to buy more yarn, perhaps??

I think its a great art picture. I think I'd crop out the road on the top, and leave the blurry zebras in a field of green, but its wonderful!

I think it is a very cool shot. It sort of looks like a holograph.

I too have this problem with my safari pictures... :) Try the speed setting next time Bethany!

It sucks - NOT!

The word is artistic. I love it.

Define "sucks"... because I personally think the pic is very cool... it has a sense of "accidental art"... there are lenses available to give such effects...

Its too cool, looks like she was in the savannah, and was running after the zebras to get a better shot.

It's blurry? Oh, wait (fumbles with glasses). Ahhh....yes, interesting. We went to the grand opening of a new art museum at the UT campus in Austin on Sunday and all I can say is it would fit right in. (Of course one of the exhibits was two very large canvases painted white.)

Of course we went for the music! ;)

The offical vote is for cool. Sorry Bethany.

I hate when Moms are right. And I'm just young enough, yet, I feel her pain. So I'm going to agree with her and say that I think that is the most hideous picture I have ever seen in my entire life. I only hope that it was a digital picture, because I would hate to think that time and money was wated on film and developing that pathetic excuse for a picture. It should be hung in the cells of prisoners who need to be tortured to extract some bit of information. It makes my eyes bleed.

How was that? ;) :P :D

Sorry Bethany - the pic is cool.

I think the picture is really neat ... artistic even. I mean, com'on, everyone knows what zebras look like IN focus. This picture shows them in a different light that not everyone has seen before. Abstract is a good thing. :)

Sorry, Bethany, I'm with your mom on this one. Impressionist zebras are cool.

Well, it kinda reminds me of the floaty things I see right before I get a migraine. But, aside from the migraine factor, it is a really cool picture!

I just skimmed through the other photos, so I don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but the reason zebras HAVE stripes is so when they are moving in a pack, it is hard for predators to pick out a single animal. The stripes are an adaptation that helps them blend.

So the picture illustrates this perfectly. Wonderful!

Hey! It reminded me of my very very favorite op-art zebra print tent dress in junior high school! I still miss it......

groovadelic, man! I like it. I think I read somewhere that no two zebras have the same stripe pattern. Unsubstantiated, but cool.

Well I can't look at it for long because the movement gives me motion-sickness (seriously!) but I do think it's way cool that a blurry picture can still capture the essence of its subject. Definitely arty.

While the pic is interesting, and I can see why you like it, the real question is-what was Bethany actually drinking on that trip!?

;)

Most of my favorite pictures are the wonky ones. I'm not such a good photographer, so maybe I'm rationalizing, but...I like it!

Sorry, Bethany, but....

I think it's a *very* interesting photo, with the blurring of the zebras' stripes and the grass and the streaks on the window looking intentional, not accidental.

Boy, those zebras are fast little suckers, aren't they.

As an addendum, my four-year-old once asked me, after seeing a zebra, "Mommy, what other kinds of bras are there?"

Ahem.

Well, if you can only accept a perfectly focused picture, then yes, it sucks.

But don't we have enough perfectly focused pictures of animals? At least zebras. This picture is unique and beautiful. It might bring me to seizures with its movement. The zebras look quite content and peaceful, but you have projected the zaniness of human life (perhaps the jitteriness of too much coffee!?!?!) on them.

Isn't that way more interesting?

Very creative...lots of possibilities!

It is almost 3D like, kinda messes with my eyes............ AWESOME !!!!

Although she didn't mean to be creative she really is and she should know it!! Trust a teen to think it is u.g.l.y!!:)
I think it is great and it speaks volumes for both the animal and the observer...! Good Job Bethany!!!!

I like it, too! I'm wondering if I might use it in digital collage?

Not without express permission, of course!

I love it too, its a cool piece of art.

Here is the quote I botched up completely:

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams

I love that quote.

I really like it. It's almost intentionally blurry.... art is full of mistakes, we just pick the ones we like best. (I'm trying to quote a quote I read recently and I think I botched it - hopefully you get the idea.)

That looks like how the color grey was invented: you shake a zebra really had. She captured the color grey being made. Excellant!!!

Bethany, I would normally side with your mother, just out of principle. (Mothers have it hard enough) but this time I'm on her side for real.
Impressionist Zebras. Very nice work.

Nope, I loved it too! And, if it's band related, that makes it even better. I think it's funny, we both have daughters in band (and graduating this year) and we both knit. Wouldn't you like to move to Georgia? We'd have lots of notes to compare!!!
Sheri in GA

Normally, I'd be on B's side...but, B- I like this photo! :)

Did you get any of giraffes?

:) kate

It doesn't suck but I when I first saw it I thought "damn, I need more coffee.........."

Love your blog!
Dawn

Will I? No!

:-)

Well just ask yourself the question would it be half as interesting if it wasn't blurred?? I think not, very op art.

I think a future art photographer is born...!!

Good luck with your next trip.

Hi from Austria! I think that pic is absolutely cool, the out-of-focus thing adds a great feeling to it! Sorry Bethany :)

That is one non-sucking photo of zebras.

sucks what? lemon cream lollipops? i think it's cool!

As a *photo*, Bethany is right. It is not a good photo, but nearly any criteria.

As in interesting piece of art, though, it is pretty neat.

I love it!! It reminds me of the "op art" I learned about in 6th grade. Don't know if I'd like fuzzy, out-of-focus elephants, but it sure works with the zebras!!

Cool picture! :)

I like it. Makes you feel like they're moving.

I think it's very cool. (Sorry Bethany.)

Zebras in an earthquake, a metaphor for the times we live in. (!!???!!)

It is a fun photo, trippy.

Wow, no way, it's beautiful. It's art. It's almost like a watercolor. Well, okay, maybe a smeared watercolor ;-) but I like it this way... I would buy a poster of this. (And then spend all day staring at it and getting a headache, no doubt.) It is coooool.

I love it. It is hallucinate and very addicting :-) It gives the sense of movement.

Bethany is wrong. I love it all weird like that.

I think the blurry stripe-effect is kind of cool, in a graphic-art kind of way. But I can't help but be concerned about the zebras. Were they harmed in the earthquake?

I always take the mom's side. So, I like the picture. And, this goes both ways. Next time Hannah disagrees with me, I'm counting on you.

It's interesting in the way those optical illusion thingies in black and white are interesting. I have to say though, I don't think it's out of focus. I think the shutter speed was too slow for the movement and that resulted in a sort of double or triple exposure sort of a thing. If *all* my pictures of an event came out that way, I think I'd be pretty unhappy with them. I don't hate it but I can certainly understand why she does. And there you have my tin pennies ;)

As I think I said on my blog just the other day - life is fuzzy like that!

i like it all blurry.

I think it's a great shot - good design - and odd number of zebras. The out of focus makes it look surreal!

Luv it!