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Mugger Crocodile
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.
Handheld from a distance using a Sigma 150-500mm lens in the afternoon. Not Cropped at all.
Thanks to my good friend Pro Photographer, Clifford Murray who accompanied me to Yala just before it closed down for maintenance work.
FACTS
The mugger crocodile is found throughout the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding countries, including India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Two subspecies are endangered: the Iranian Crocodile - C. p. palustris and the Ceylon Mugger Crocodile or Sri Lanka Swamp Crocodile - C. p. kimbula. Mugger crocodiles are medium to large crocodiles depending on the subspecies and range in size from 5.9 to 13 feet. Females have been known to grow at a faster rate than males. Both endangered subspecies are greenish-olive in color with darker markings and can reach a body length of 13 feet.
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Digging into the archives to see what I missed. I like this one, don't know why I didn't post it sooner.
My daughter gave me a BIG Challenge in her painting lesson - to draw a "Funny Looking Scary Girl" I thought to do my task by abstract art, in a simple way.
I realised this was not what she wanted but finally she said this is better than what she wanted.
L'inverno sta finendo e i rami sono ancora spogli. Camminando per la campagna romana tra prati e collinette è già un tripudio di verde, almeno a terra. I rami di un albero attirano la mia attenzione; si stagliano in controluce sul cielo appannato da una lieve foschia. Creano un'atmosfera degna di un film horror, e con un po' di post-produzione ne enfatizzo il lato spaventoso...
Oh my goodness ...... what a "horrible" challenge for today - a self portrait!!! Well, at first I thought about opting out then I thought no can't do that. So set up my tripod and then thought a slight "film noir" might help those of a younger age group not to get so much of a fright - so here goes!! Screeeaam!
Seriously, I have had a real good run on Explore over the past few days (thanks to everyone) so thought I would bring that to an end by uploading this frightener!!
Our Daily Challenge - SELF PORTRAIT ......
Well, I find this so hard to believe - can't believe it - thanks for all your views and favourites which helped me hit Explore!
Scavenge Challenge - February #16 Express a strong emotion in a black-and-white portrait.
112 pictures in 2012 - #1 Me (Yourself)
The downtown businesses host a Halloween street event for children; the top frights came from a storefront made to look like a haunted house...if the first ghoul didn't scare you the second one sure did.
Project 365-304
For Slider Sunday. This is a macro photo of the holes in about seventy 45 rpm vinyl records with 500 lumens of LED light blasting into the opposite end. The clown was cut from a photo of a fun house taken at an amusement park using the PS Select and Mask tool, adding a little softness around the edges. I used Smart Objects to combine the two, reduce the opacity of the clown face to 22%, and distort the clown face so that it appears with the correct proportions at the far end of the "tunnel".
A very impressive carabid beetle (31mm, Scarites sp.; Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the miombo forests of Katanga (DR Congo, January 2013).
Studio work with a staged collection specimen. Image based on 62 exposures, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax). Canon 5Dmkii, MP-E 65mm at 1x, ISO-100, f/6.3, 1/160sec, tracing paper diffused flash.
See a previous shot of this Scarites in the first comment line.
Intended to scare off would-be predators, such as birds, this elephant-hawk moth caterpillar is in defensive mood. It was photographed down the length of its food plant, making its body part a lot shorter than it is. The actual head is what appears to be the tongue.
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