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Monday
07Dec2009

Turtle Spotting


 

 

Home owners dilemma...you paint the bathroom and put up a border. You pick out some nice picture frames that look good with the color, then pick photos that look good in the frames. 

I took these at the Heard Museum when I had to get the kids out of the house while Mom was doing the painting. I don't do much landscape photography, but for whatever reason I took a couple of quick shots this day. The kids were hurrying ahead of me on the trail so I really didn't take any time to really look over the scene.

When I got the images home and looked at them, I discovered that I inadvertently caught an image of some turtles sunning themselves on branches that were poking out of the water. Upon closer inspection I discovered there were 22 turtles in all. See if you can spot them. This is the unedited image:

(click the image to enlarge)

 

Answers are here:

 

 

So who really cares about turtles anyway? The point is to look at what you're photographing. I probably could have gotten far more interesting shots if I had just taken a few minutes to look at the scene. With the kids rushing ahead of me I didn't really stop for too long. I got lucky catching what I did, but I know I could have done better. I also didn't realize I'd actually be using the picture to hang somewhere in the house.  It's in the bathroom, so maybe it'll be inspiring

This is the second picture which I made into an 11X14. Very tranquil. Perfect for the bathroom.

 

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