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Mated for Life
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Challenge: Love IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2012 Challenge shots
Date: Feb 14, 2012
Date Uploaded: Feb 14, 2012

[Feb. 21st, 2012 10:07:26 PM]

The mute swans mate for life. But they will (hopefully) find a new mate if one dies. This is either Louis or Serena -- we're not sure which. Louis and Serena were a pair of swans living in a nearby pond. One of them was killed by a car 4-5 years ago. We were all terribly sad.

Two years ago another swan showed up at the pond. And Louis (I think it was Serena that we lost) ended up with a new mate.

Life is hard for the swans. They usually have a batch of cygnets -- last year it was 12, and it seemed like each morning there were less and less.

Snapping turtles, I hear, is the primary cause.

1 cygnet survived last year.

Mute swans are an invasive species. There is concern that they are causing problems for the native species on the eastern flyway.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 53
Avg (all users): 6.1570
Avg (commenters): 7.6250
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.1979
Views since voting: 758
Views during voting: 249
Votes: 121
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 02/22/2012 12:20:23 PM
Top Ten! Go, Wendy!
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 02/22/2012 02:24:54 AM
Beautiful and brilliantly capture. Congrats!
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 02/22/2012 02:21:01 AM
Fine shot,Congrats on top ten.
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 02/21/2012 07:36:59 PM
Wendy this is so beautiful! Thank you for your wonderful comment, I was totaly shocked mine outscored this ... guess folks like goofy sometimes! But I'd be Proud to call this one mine!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/16/2012 08:11:18 PM
Beautiful photo.
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 02/16/2012 11:57:42 AM
They are gorgeous!
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 02/16/2012 07:28:36 AM
Beautifully captured, contemporary, yet reserved on the post operative side of things, and titled appropriately. I award you my tied-for-third place spot!
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 02/16/2012 07:19:04 AM
Quality!
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 02/15/2012 08:39:56 PM
This is an amzing shot. I think it will ribbon. Not voting...
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 02/15/2012 01:42:08 PM
Nice post processing and mirroring pose.
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 02/15/2012 12:57:42 PM
love the comp and the symmetry of their poses and the pp is excellent 7
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 02/15/2012 05:25:37 AM
Very beautiful wildlife image. Good job on exposure of the white feather in the sunlight. 9
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 02/14/2012 07:36:03 PM
Awesome! Same pose, but totally reversed.Great shot
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 02/14/2012 07:08:21 PM
Wonderful! LOVE the title.
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