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by whiteroom

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What's a "vlei", Lesley? And no, that's not your poem LOL. That's my sound of admiration. I'm trying to build a knowledge base to work with here. What's the STORY? The deserts's encroaching on these trees? Or it's moved past them and they are unearthed after a long time of being buried?

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by whiteroom

Comment:
Holy macaroni and cheese! What a strange image!

Feeding Frenzy
by sher

Comment:
WOW! I never saw this before. Fine, fine image! I'm not surprised it won in a natural history competition.

Can't think of a title, sorry.
by jmlelii

Comment:
love the title. "an enemy?" would be a ncie pun on "anemone" which this very much r4esembles. Nice shot, I hope it does well for you.

In the Key of Silence
by DannyM

Comment:
reminds me of Conrad Aiken:

"And the stillness is in the key, all of it is,
the stillness is all in the key of that desolate sound..."

Sunset To Savour...
by all4u

Comment:
pity you didn't level the horizon, that's going to cost you...

O Wind On The Waterfall, And The Leaves' Laughter
by rscorp

Comment:
Tom Bombadil!

Love comes in pairs!
by gaeali

Comment:

Originally posted by Bosborne: WAY TO GO!! Knew it would win! Just one question tho...what are the bands on the legs for?

Zoos mark all their animals. It's especially important with birds, who are relatively free to come and go if they occupy the zoo grounds but not a cage. The bands have numbers on them to allow access to a database. So say one of the brids gets sick, they just run the database and see the bird's history. And of course if the bird "escapes" and is foudn elsewhere, the band can be used to track it.

You'll even see bands on a lot of wild creatures; scientists are always capturoing, tagging/banding, and releasing wild creatures. Sometimes the tags will have transmitters so the creature can be tracked, for study of feeding behavior, migratory patterns, and the like.

Smooth even stroke
by caba

Comment:
This is really, really nice! I love looking at it. I suspect you'd have finished even higher were the image a little crisper. Great finish for a great shot!

Even by a Nose
by FotoMunki

Comment:
congrats on your ribbon!