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The skull
of a soldier who died
far away from his home
is an instrument
to games he doesn't know
in the hands of children
that found it
For the second time!
Sunay Akın ( 1962 - )
Sunset on Skull Creek Scullers. 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
Allen die Halloween feiern: Happy Halloween !!!
Den anderen wünsche ich für morgen, ein besinnliches Allerheiligen.
Everyone who celebrates Halloween: Happy Halloween !!!
I wish the others a peaceful All Saints' Day for tomorrow.
Die Totenköpfe habe ich auf dem Friedhof in Chammünster geschossen. Eine der ältesten Kirchen hier im Landkreis, mit ihren 900 Jahren.
I shot the skulls in the cemetery in Chammünster. One of the oldest churches here in the district, with its 900 years.
Cham Oberpfalz
Bayern (Bavaria) - Deutschland (Germany)
Oktober (October) 2021
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#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
When I took this photo at a small stream, I actually only wanted to photograph the structures of the wave. Only when I developed the photo at home did I notice that the boulder where the wave broke looks like a skull.
Macabre, or just a trick of nature?...wie so vieles im Leben!!!
Als ich dieses Foto an einem kleinen Bachlauf machte, wollte ich eigentlich nur die Strukturen der Welle ablichten. Erst als ich das Foto zu Hause entwickelt habe, bemerkte ich, dass der Feldstein, wo sich die Welle brach, wie ein Totenschädel aussieht.
Makaber, oder nur ein Streich der Natur?...like so many things in life!!!
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
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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I'm the prettiest skull that you'll ever find!
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A special attraction is the chapel located in local cemetery, where you can see collection of skulls signed name and profession of the deceased. Skull decorated with floral elements belong to women.
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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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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!
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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Order:Crocodilia
Family:Alligatoridae
Subfamily:Caimaninae
Clade:Jacarea
Genus:Caiman
Species:C. yacare
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