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Chupacabra
Chupacabra
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Challenge: Never Seen on DPC! (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Jun 23, 2009
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2009

 A few nights ago I heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from the goat pen. When I went outside to check it out I saw this guy running away. I guess I was lucky to have taken my camera with me. I guess I am lucky to be alive.

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The south end of a north bound female goat. Rotated 180 degrees.

Thanks much, Don. I'm udderly thrilled.

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 110
Avg (all users): 5.6957
Avg (commenters): 7.2083
Avg (participants): 5.7818
Avg (non-participants): 5.6509
Views since voting: 1255
Views during voting: 434
Votes: 161
Comments: 37
Favorites: 3 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/15/2009 02:02:47 PM
Exceptional! Thanks!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/08/2009 05:18:24 AM
ROFL!! ...and I thought it was some sort of vampire bat. Luckily I didn't vote on this challenge, so you didn't loose any well deserved points.... This is certainly a creative and memorable image. Well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2009 09:59:27 PM
My fav of the challenge. Sorry others didn't see it as such.
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 07/03/2009 03:17:41 PM
Originally posted by pointandshoot:
The south end of a north bound female goat. Rotated 180 degrees.

Haha, that's priceless. So those are udders, not ears? And I thought it was done with mirrors! :-D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2009 08:17:23 AM
I honestly thought this was just the scariest bat ever.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2009 08:13:57 AM
Oh, you are KIDDING me! Damn, your goat is versatile!

From comments alone you should have gotten the Blue - you met the challenge in spades.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2009 01:18:34 AM
Even without having to look it up, even without the long while to figure out the ears, this is a very immediate human/beast pull to wonderment.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2009 12:59:29 AM
Still "best in show" in my humblopinion!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2009 12:31:41 AM
well ollie you've done it again
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 07/03/2009 12:10:02 AM
aww i expected this to finish higher. I thought this was cool, and spooky looking. Great colortone for the image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/02/2009 11:45:10 PM
somebody call mulder!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2009 11:27:02 PM
Alarming, and not something I've seen before. posthumous yellow ribbon.

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2009 03:59:27 PM
I feel slightly disturbed by this I am not sure what I am seeing, I hope no animal was harmed in the taking of this image.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 08:51:19 PM
imo i would have liked it better if there was no border.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 05:18:13 PM
Very mysterious. Draws the viewer in...I want to see its face...sort of thing. Good work. Don't know what it is, but watch out and don't get too close, it might be...CHUPACABRA!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 05:11:00 PM
Oooo This is creepy, i like =)
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 07/01/2009 05:02:58 PM
We in Texas know that the "goat suckers" are really pit bulls.
//www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=texas-biologist-cuero-chupacabra-is-2008-08-15
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 04:11:44 PM
So great -- is this a cat lying on a mirror, with the photo rotated? Just guessing. What an intriguing, creepy photo, nice tones and shadows, and definitely offers something new.

* back to bump this up!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/30/2009 05:47:39 PM
Thank goodness I'm not looking at this before bed. I'd have nightmares for sure! I like the fence shadow on the animal. For all I know it's just a cat.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2009 05:18:35 PM
I'm looking at this waiting for it to turn round - great picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 10:13:20 PM
But chupacabras are a reptile-like being, appearing to have leathery or scaly greenish-gray skin and sharp spines or quills running down its back...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 05:42:13 PM
comment only.

Granted, not an animal we see everyday and guess the fact that it has its back to us it adds to the overal mystery. at first I dismissed this as a snapshot but after reading a little about the Chupacabra the image makes more sense and I've grown to appreciate it more. Sadly, I think I'm in the minority so you may well be cursed by the dpc speed voter on this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 04:30:13 PM
did you know that the local pet store sells Chupacabra food? Wild.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 04:21:14 PM
I like the framing of this and I like it as black and white. I wish more of it was in focus though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 04:17:40 PM
This is crepy ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 02:34:46 PM
I'm not sure what it is, but it's spooky, and I think that was your intent, so very successful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 01:52:48 PM
This is odd... certainly fits the challenge topic, I guess... since I don't know what it is, I don't know if I've seen it before. LOL!

Studying it a bit more...

Trying to figure out all of that black shadow up top...

Oh! Wait. It's not the shadow, it's the light that's the subject. It's a cat by his arms? Hmmm.... (not voting)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 11:47:53 AM
a bat??? I had to look it up...creepy...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 12:59:17 AM
Wow, what a find, you should call Coast to Coast AM right away!! lol...its a good effect, what is it really?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2009 12:23:43 AM
When I first saw this I didnt think it was real, but seeing the cage shadow it is? I can say Ive ever seen anything like it! I look forward to seeing the discription after voting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 11:54:45 PM
This is a beautifully compelling image. I can't tell for sure what it is, but I'm guessing a bat of some sort. I really like the shallow DOF, and the shadows of the cage really make the image. Great toning as well. One of my top 3.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 05:59:45 PM
Nice! I would crop a little on the right to give more symettry... I like the shadows and the DOF...
Do you know what chupacabra means literally? Do you speak portuguese?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 01:13:37 PM
hmm, I'm almost afraid to know what this is since it looks like one dog sticking it's face in another dog's nether regions. Still, it fits the challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 11:41:57 AM
You win!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 09:31:32 AM
LoL
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 07:56:42 AM
Oh that is excellent and the shadow of the screen/web is amazing. WOW. Love this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 07:05:02 AM
Very inventive, what I was hoping for in this challenge
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