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The Hellyans Feast on the Mothership
The Hellyans Feast on the Mothership
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Collection: 30 Days Of Florality - JUL07
Date Uploaded: Jul 10, 2007

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 After spawning, the baby Hellyans devour the skin of the Mothership. This provides nourishment and good drama.

The shot is full crop and very little editing. Couldn't decide if I liked a really tight crop better:

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 07/22/2007 06:57:41 PM
Ken this is fantastic. And so is your amazingly wacky sense of humor. I really like the softness and the movement this implies.
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Olympus E-300 EVOLT
Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
 07/18/2007 01:34:00 PM
I love both shots. the darker background really show off the drama.
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Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, S24 Ultra
 07/18/2007 03:37:26 AM
this look like the scene fron fantastic 4 (rise of the silver surfer) when the big black arrived on earth and tried to swallow it :P

(darn, i watched too much tv!)
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Pentax K-30
Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR
 07/16/2007 02:47:14 PM
I like the angles that you can see in the full crop. The lighting and colours are wonderful.
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Canon EOS-60D
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 for Canon
 07/10/2007 10:54:05 PM
I like both shots...the detail of the close up is wonderful but I love the "drama" of this one...very nice.
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Sony Alpha a55
Sony DT 50mm f/1.8 SAM
 07/10/2007 06:10:40 PM
Lovely. Are you sure about the border, though? "D
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/10/2007 03:54:45 PM
I like the full crop. And it looks like the flower that puked on an earlier day is now eating her babies to get them back in. Its easier than actually raising them.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 07/10/2007 02:22:28 PM
I like this wide crop better ... but the details captured in the tight one are fantastic
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Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, S24 Ultra
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS
 07/10/2007 12:11:29 PM
This full size image is better as far as I'm concerned, detail notwithstanding
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Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS II USM Lens
 07/10/2007 11:41:35 AM
At this size, there is more detail in the cropped version, but I prefer the full shot. Very lovely image, no matter what is really going on.
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Canon EOS-7D
Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
 07/10/2007 11:03:13 AM
actually, I think the babies are scared & running to hide under mother's dress! :)geez, that is some flower! you can create comic book around it's life cycle.

the tight crop always works for me b/c I'm "going blind" as I age, and I love details...
~Anni
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/10/2007 10:31:42 AM
tut, you're so bent on destruction. :p
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Sony Alpha a6000
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/10/2007 10:17:54 AM
I hate to disappoint you but I find this amazingly beautiful --- The lighting & tones are wonderful, really great floral !
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 07/10/2007 09:41:07 AM
Both shots are great but I think I like the vertical the best.
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Fujifilm X30
Custom Made Pinhole
 07/10/2007 08:22:37 AM
This one is so very nice. I think I like the larger one. Nice.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 07/10/2007 08:12:51 AM
I like the wider crop from an aesthetic perspective. It's actually a very nice shot, with interesting angles and lighting.

Also, one could get the impression from the tighter crop that the skin is actually the upper lip of an older Hellyan taking a chomp out of the babies in their nest, and we just cannot have that kind of false impression left with the viewer, now can we? A few holes eaten in the skin of the mothership or a more raggedy edge would go far in guiding the viewer to the correct interpretation regardless of crop.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
 07/10/2007 07:19:20 AM
Gosh it's hard to decide which way.. I like it both ways..
Exceptional..
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/10/2007 02:41:58 AM
Sweet. I love gardening and its all because of moments like this :) I would like to see this in full bloom.

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