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Though it looks almost the same, this turtle is actually very different (and very far away from) the other turtles I have taken pictures of.
Saw this little guy while coming home. I think he (or she) left the stream on the side of the road to cross over to the other side, perhaps to lay eggs (I've seen turtles do just that in nearly the exact same spot in the past).
As I'm selling my N300/4.0 af-s lens, was doing some "good-bye" shoots. This snap is taken with d3s, handheld. Almost none PP.
Painted turtles lay their eggs in late May-June in a gravelly bank up to a hundred feet from the water. The female then covers the eggs which hatch out around September. The young 'uns then stay in the nest until the following spring.
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Based on this photo.
Another experiment with the grass at the bottom. I really like the effect.
The last thing I did on this drawing was to darken the outline around the top of the shell because I thought it blended in too much with the white background. I don't like the result though. That's pen and ink, you can darken something, but you can never lighten it.
Florida Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina bauri
This turtle was found in north Tampa. Most Florida Box turtles have more prominent radiating lines on the carapace, but there is a great deal of morphological variation in the Florida populations. The carapace design of this male is similar to the more northern subspecies, Terrapene carolina carolina, found over a hundred miles north of this location, from (roughly) the Florida/Georgia border northwards. But the neck stripe and the brown, rather than red, eyes are characteristic of T.c. bauri.