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Get Off My Back
Get Off My Back
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Challenge: Wildlife II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Everglades
Date: Jan 22, 2006
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2006

 I agonized over three choices for this challenge, and I hope I made the right choice.

This was one of many alligators just hanging out in the algae. He was the most active and every now and then would thrash about and lift his head out of the water.

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 261
Avg (all users): 6.4618
Avg (commenters): 7.6087
Avg (participants): 6.0826
Avg (non-participants): 6.6595
Views since voting: 1348
Views during voting: 495
Votes: 353
Comments: 24
Favorites: 0

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 03/19/2006 10:53:34 PM
Just hanging out? Now that is not somewhere I want to be close to...watching the history or national geo channels, I have seen enough attachs by them to make me be afraid.....
Awesome picture... Love the greens and the focal points here..

Message edited by author 2006-03-20 03:54:32.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/31/2006 06:49:41 PM
Incredible shot! Great stop motion clarity.
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 01/31/2006 10:52:39 AM
eww that is grose but good
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 01/31/2006 03:45:36 AM
cool swamp croc
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 01/30/2006 02:50:16 PM
Very cool!
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 01/30/2006 12:35:31 PM
OMG.. Love this. The expression,goop,eye,colour,and placement/ cropping.. Awesome work!!!!
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 01/30/2006 12:28:20 PM
Capture of pose and algae cover is great. Nice composition, sharpness, DOF, textures, and visible eye. Wonderful.
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 01/30/2006 03:51:14 AM
WOW! impressive shot.
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 01/30/2006 03:04:02 AM
This is good!! Clever shot!! Well done
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 01/29/2006 06:48:41 PM
Yup this is the one, my pick for the top spot. The ivory of the croc and the green of the alge work like magic, witht he strong diagonal of the snout working well with the crop: good DOF provides plenty of detail on the subject while minimising distractions in the backround. It might have benfited by a bit darker blacks to bring up the pop factor, but this is the best of the crop.
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 01/29/2006 06:36:47 PM
Reminds me of a teacher I had once ... he was a slimeball too :)
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 01/29/2006 06:08:30 PM
He's been slimed! LOL. Now that is wildlife (no petting I bet) and it looks like his natural habitat, so good enough for me. Nice job.
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 01/28/2006 11:18:23 AM
nicely done, had never seen a gator with what appears to me to be a blue eye, LOL, but nice photo
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 01/28/2006 06:07:49 AM
Yuck! That's for the critter, not the picture - the picture is nicely done - good detail, nice positioning in the frame.
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 01/27/2006 06:07:03 PM
WHY is he smiling...I wonder??? lol Good shot.
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 01/27/2006 03:01:36 PM
Great shot.

I'd have loved to have seen it cropped closer to include just the head, it'd have a strong diagonal across the frame then.
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 01/27/2006 05:11:09 AM
Cool shot, lots of green.
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 01/26/2006 01:27:09 PM
great shot...love the green and great composition
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 01/25/2006 11:35:45 PM
Hey slimey - do you want to go tick tock! Great capture and good luck.
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 01/25/2006 12:49:42 PM
Nice Capture!
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 01/25/2006 10:35:18 AM
Pretty cool picture. love all the green lol.
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 01/25/2006 09:53:00 AM
well done
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 01/25/2006 05:16:59 AM
Nice capture. With all that algae covering it it looks like a creature from an old sci-fi film. The composition is nice and uncluttered. I'd like to see the focus a bit sharper in its eye.
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 01/25/2006 04:30:36 AM
Great colours and nice capture.
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