This week, Patti has chosen water as the subject for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, but more specifically, as she implies in the title, she is looking for us to make a bit of a splash, maybe like these sparrows taking a bath in the fountain at the Chicago Botanic Garden or koi fish threshing about in a feeding frenzy at the Anderson Japanese Garden in Rockford.
For the Polar bear it was not so much about making a splash as blowing bubbles, but you can always be sure of seeing lots of splashing at the Dolphin Show at Brookfield Zoo.
For larger birds, it isn’t always easy to perform a graceful takeoff or landing on water but they do their best. A cormorant takes of from the pond at Clearwater Park in Mount Prospect and a pelican settles down after making a splashdown on the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa.
For more on the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge go to #21 Splash!
The Nature of Things 
Lots of great splashes here! I really like the sparrows.
Thanks, Sandy! There were a whole crowd of sparrows taking advantage of the fountain and obligingly stayed there for quite a while so I was able to get a nice selection of shots.
Great original ideas to show splashing around….love the sparrows and the dolphin.
Thanks, Marianne! Things always seem to happen so quickly and unexpectedly at the dolphin show that I never seem to be able to capture exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll keep trying.
Wonderful gallery.
Thank you!
Lots of splashes there! Animals make the loveliest splashes of all.
I agree! Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Ann-Christine.
Thank You!
The sparrows were my favourite splashers.
Yes, the sparrows got my vote. They were very cooperative.
Some good photos here. The photo of the polar bear is really fascinating.
Thank you, Suzanne! I was surprised to see so many bubbles coming from not only the bear’s nose but also his eyes.
I like the polar bear photo a lot! Very cool!
Thanks, Chris! I love getting shots of the polar bears underwater. I was lucky when I took this one because they’d just cleaned the huge windows there and the resulting pictures were relatively clear.
Adorable!
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