Hide 'n Seek in Green * Traveller by Canon DSLR Challenge


21-DEC-2006	Traveller

Actually, I'm not sure that she is doing that well...but she THOUGHT that she was hiding and it is the effort that matters...lol

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Canon DSLR Challenge		23-Jan-2007 08:19
Much Better! Maybe even what I want...Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Jan-2007 20:52
I agree Lonnit, but the picture really didn't turn out the way I saw it in my mind's eye and so, at some level, while I can be anal also....I'm moving on, the image doesn't move me enough to put the effort in into it. I used the healing tool more than you might imagine on Country Road because I cared, but on this, I'm letting it go. I've got another 500 images to chop my way through. Thanks for the comment though. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Jan-2007 16:14
Nice, but I'm not thrilled with the vertically centered subject. Where would I crop? If you scroll the image down so that the white gunk on the back edge of the bottom leaf just touches the frame of your viewing window, it allows for a more dynamic composition, that also takes away from the distraction of the leaf's raggedness, which is currently a secondary subject which detracts from the primary. If you want to be anal, you might consider cloning out the bright spot above the tear on the leaf in the upper right corner. I'd be obsessive enough to do that, but that's the way I am. ;) ~ Lonnit

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Jan-2007 10:10
No. I just learn what interests me like anyone else does. Ask me about sitcoms, lyrics of music, or just about anything in a tabloid magazine and I'm clueless. Some of it is just observation, as in this case. I've spent hours at a time watching communities of anoles interacting. The males are larger, don't have the stripe down their back and like to show off their dewlap. They do this to attract females and also to ward off other males. Meanwhile, the females tend to either make themselves scarce, henpeck each other, or just blend in, like in your picture. One of my favorite restaurants in town, The Omelettery, has a great view of such activities from a couple of the tables. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Jan-2007 10:00
Victor, do you teach this stuff? You really, really seem to know your Flora and Fauna very well...A Female she is. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Jan-2007 09:32
FWIW, I think this is a female. You can tell by the white stripe going down her back. I didn't know they had anoles in Hawaii. Perhaps they were introduced, like so many other species there. -- Victor