Skull and Bones

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#macromondays

#Phobia

#Trypophobia

#dentophobia

#Necrophobia

#Achluophobia

So many phobias, and so many choices. I should have checked the English list of phobias on Wikipedia first, because there is a phobia called "Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia" (fear of the number 666) which would have been worth picking for the word alone, and it would also have been an apt choice for Halloween ;) But since I already had a vague idea of which phobia I wanted to illustrate when I read about the theme, I only looked into the German list for the correct term for the latter: which is trypophobia, a fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes – and I'd strongly advise you not to look for images of that particular fear, because... nope :)

So trypophobia is the main phobia in this photo. When we once had "Mesh" as an MM theme some time ago, I'd noticed that the biggest of the many tiny holes in the mesh of a small laundry sachet looked like a skull when seen from a certain angle. I'd picked a different subject for the theme back then, but I immediately had the idea to use the "laundry sachet skull" when I read about the Phobia theme. Btw, I'm sure there also is a phobia against losing single socks in the washing machine, even if you won't find it on the Wikipedia list ;)

Other phobias that might work with this photo as well are "necrophobia" (fear of death or the dead – and doesn't Mr. Skull remind you of a mummy as well?), dentophobia (fear of the dentist, although poor Mr. Skull has already lost all his teeth, probably because of eating too many "Mon Cherie" chocolates), achluphobia (fear of darkness), and eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors or seeing one's reflection in the mirror ̵– which is me every morning)...

Stupidly (most stupidly, I should note), I thought that the image I had already taken and processed last night wasn't sharp enough. So I still took several more photos today – alas, none of them were any sharper so I picked the aforementioned first photo from yesterday anyway. Stupid, isn't it? It's a single High Resolution shot processed in Color Efex mainly with the tonal contrast filter which added a nice "oomph" to the image. I chose the "High Resolution" mode so I'd be able to crop the image so that there would be only one "skull" in the frame (the length of Mr. Skull's eyes and mouth is 1,5 cm/0,059 inches each). So what you see is a 3229x3229 image cropped from the original 10368x7776 SOOC photo. I did this because you can get extremely close to the subject with the 30mm macro lens – which in this case meant that the lens blocked out all the light coming from the left and right (which I'd put up to highlight the white mesh). So I had to increase the working distance which made the tiny holes too tiny for cropping out a single "skull" with the regular resolution. Setup: White mesh laundry sachet wrapped around the red, transparent chocolate box lid; the third light source was a soft white photo light from above.

HMM and Happy Halloween, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!

Sunset on Skull Creek. Skull Creek, part of Port Royal Sound, is an intracoastal waterway that separates Hilton Head Island from the mainland. Shot taken from Hudson's on the Docks, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Sunset on Skull Creek. Skull Creek, part of Port Royal Sound, is an intracoastal waterway that separates Hilton Head Island from the mainland. Shot taken from Hudson's on the Docks, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

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Once a beautiful tree, today a sad skull. Carved by humans to impress, for many years, the wooden skull has witnessed the passing of Halloween nights, with hollow eyes and a heart full of rings.

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I had a fun evening with a few photographer friends a few nights ago. Incense cones were placed inside the skull creating the smoke. I added a texture to the image.

Texture credit: Jerry Jones

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Skull Rock in Joshua Tree National Park is a granite rock formation with two depressions like eye sockets created by erosion. It is located near the road so is a favorite stop for visitors. I waited quite awhile to get a shot with only one person in it. Most of the time there were several people clambering around on it. The person gives a sense of the size of the formation.

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My Style Darkness

• Sand tiger shark, grey nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, blue-nurse sand tiger

• Tiburón sarda (UY), tiburón toro, escalandrún (AR)

• Cação-mangona, tubarão-touro, tubarão-cinza

Scientific classification:

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Infraphylum: Gnathostomata

Parvphylum: Chondrichthyes

Class: Elasmobranchii

Subclass: Neoselachii

Infraclass: Selachii

Superorder: Galeomorphi

Order: Lamniformes

Family: Odontaspididae

Genus: Carcharias

Species:C. taurus

~160mm (wide)

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A composite of a close-up of a skull found at the 13th century Château de Mauriac in Gaillac. The background is the skull in it's actual location, high up in the ramparts - HSS!

• Alpaca

Scientific classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Mammalia

Order:Artiodactyla

Family:Camelidae

Genus:Vicugna

Species:V. pacos

225mm

Juvenile

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Just a simple tourist type snap taken at Hythe Kent UK of a whole bunch of old Skulls on a rack in the crypt at St. Leonards Church.

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Joshua Tree National Park, California. As you can see, this rock formation is aptly named.

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• Yacare caiman, southern spectacled caiman

• Yacaré negro

Scientific classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Reptilia

Order:Crocodilia

Family:Alligatoridae

Subfamily:Caimaninae

Clade:Jacarea

Genus:Caiman

Species:C. yacare

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Skull of a little Marsupial mouse (skull is under 3.5cm)

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• White-chinned petrel / Cape hen

• Petrel de barba blanca / Pardela gorgiblanca

Scientific classification:

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Procellariiformes

Family:Procellariidae

Genus:Procellaria

Species:P. aequinoctialis

118mm

Ethically sourced specimens

Ginger Chevalier since 2007

Dinictis felina was an extinct carnivore that roamed the North American plains during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, approximately 40 to 35 million years ago. It belonged to the genus Dinictis, one of the earliest and most basal members of the Nimravidae family—commonly referred to as “false saber-toothed cats.” Although it resembled modern felines in some aspects, Dinictis was part of a separate evolutionary lineage within Carnivora and lacked many of the advanced adaptations seen in later saber-toothed predators.

Cougar-sized and built for stealth, it had a flat-footed (plantigrade) stance, relatively short and powerful limbs, and a long tail for balance. Its saber-like canines were elongated but modest compared to those of later nimravids or true machairodontine cats, indicating an early stage in the evolution of saber-toothed predation.

Scientific classification:

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Suborder: Feliformia

Family: †Nimravidae

Subfamily: †Nimravinae

Genus: †Dinictis

Species: †Dinictis felina (Leidy, 1854)

Taxonomic notes:

Although various species were once attributed to the genus Dinictis, a 2016 taxonomic revision determined that the genus is monotypic, containing only the species †Dinictis felina. It was originally named by Joseph Leidy and later placed in Nimravidae by Cope (1880), and in the subfamily Nimravinae by Flynn and Galiano (1982), Bryant (1991), and Martin (1998).

The skull of Dinictis felina displays transitional features: slightly elongated upper canines, a moderately shortened snout, and pronounced zygomatic arches—suggesting strong jaw musculature. Unlike true cats (which are digitigrade), Dinictis was plantigrade, walking on the soles of its feet, a trait it shared with early carnivores. This posture, along with its muscular build, implies a lifestyle based more on stalking and ambush than on long pursuits.

This cast comes from a rare fossil specimen unearthed in South Dakota’s Brule Formation, a rich Oligocene-aged deposit. The replica faithfully captures the defining traits of Dinictis: its moderately sabered canines, deep-set eye orbits, and powerful jawline—offering a window into the early evolutionary stages of saber-toothed predation in North America.

Big spring tides are always great days to explore the sea caves at low tide. I've photographed in this one a few times but had never really noticed this wonderful likeness of a skull before! Skull and bones, by A A Bondy is spot on, but the bones may be lacking, unless I got cut off!!