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You can actually tell the sex of a warthog just by looking at its face. Males have four warts, two large ones beneath the eyes and two smaller ones just above the mouth; females have two small ones right below their eyes.
Sculpture in Civic League Park, San Angelo, Texas, USA.
Camera: Olympus OM-PC with RMC Tokina 28-70mm zoom lens.
Film: Fomapan 200 ISO, 35mm
Developing: Kodak HC-110, dilution H, 9 min.
Here's one for the ladies haha!
And, Seth, just because you are a man, you can still comment! LoL :-D
Explored #56. (Nice to see a dude grace the pages of Explore) LoL
Here is another Jack Snipe in flight after I had unintentionally flushed it by almost standing on it. Though I much prefer to watch them on the ground without flushing. But they don't lend themselves to views on the ground as they hunker down and hide until you almost tread on them and they silently spring into the air to escape. They are only about half the body weight of Common Snipe (55g v 110g) and the bill is noticeably shorter. They also look darker and the pale tramlines down the back seem more prominent too. Common Snipe usually flush much earlier, and they turn and twist in flight while giving a sound like tearing cloth: www.xeno-canto.org/594199
And the title; Spring-heeled Jack was an English folklore character from the Victorian era. He was supposed to be of grotesque appearance but with extraordinary leaping powers.
Great cover shot of Gregory Harrison from a cover of Dramalogue -- then the local theatre paper here in L.A.
Now back to our regular programming of the natural world...
Photographed down in my creek. I'm very excited I'll be taking an intensive 10 day class in Faux Bois next month so I thought I should begin collecting inspirational images.
Faux Bois (French for 'false wood') is an artform that likely dates back to the Renaissance, but the application of ferrocement over iron armatures sculpted to look like wood was popularized in France during the late 1800's.
Most often it is used in the making of outdoor structures, hand railings, planters, bird baths, and outdoor furniture.
The instructor of the course has served as a consultant on the recent restoration of some of these French masterpieces.
There are very few people working in this nearly lost art form. I have wanted to learn these techniques for a decade, and soon it will be a reality!!