Scaled
Active Assignment Weekly: June 6-13: Nature's Geometric Shapes...
For the assignment, photograph a geometric shape created by nature.
Restriction: It can be set up by man ( ie: salt crystalizing,water freezing ) but can not be constructed by him (man).
Dare: Something other than a macro.
WIT: This is the skin from a rattlesnake that picked the shade of the wrong tree one hot day several years ago. I was with a group of people in southwestern North Dakota on a paleontology field trip. Upon returning to our camp site under a group of cottonwood trees this former snake struck out at a passing person...without the traditional rattling first. Out came the shovels and a few moments later the snake was shorter by a head. That was nearly twenty years ago and the skin is still hanging around in the garage. According to the web, a snake hatches with a fixed number of scales. The scales do not increase in number as the snake matures nor do they reduce in number over time. The scales however grow larger in size and may change shape with each molt. The darker portion in the middle is the back of the snake, the wider scales to the edges are from the belly. Light by afternoon sun, sharpened and cropped.
Scaled
Active Assignment Weekly: June 6-13: Nature's Geometric Shapes...
For the assignment, photograph a geometric shape created by nature.
Restriction: It can be set up by man ( ie: salt crystalizing,water freezing ) but can not be constructed by him (man).
Dare: Something other than a macro.
WIT: This is the skin from a rattlesnake that picked the shade of the wrong tree one hot day several years ago. I was with a group of people in southwestern North Dakota on a paleontology field trip. Upon returning to our camp site under a group of cottonwood trees this former snake struck out at a passing person...without the traditional rattling first. Out came the shovels and a few moments later the snake was shorter by a head. That was nearly twenty years ago and the skin is still hanging around in the garage. According to the web, a snake hatches with a fixed number of scales. The scales do not increase in number as the snake matures nor do they reduce in number over time. The scales however grow larger in size and may change shape with each molt. The darker portion in the middle is the back of the snake, the wider scales to the edges are from the belly. Light by afternoon sun, sharpened and cropped.