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Photo posted by Stuart Williams in the Man & Fauna gallery on 02/09/12 at 03:47 am EST
Registered on 12/07/07, 247 Posts, 4792 Comments
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Stuart Williams
Lilongwe, Malawi
"one's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" - henry miller |
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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on 02/09/12 at 06:02 am EST
Registered on 03/23/06, 1111 Posts, 6531 Comments
Dramatic weather changes are a fact throughout the world. Sad story told well with this image. 
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Comment posted by Avi Hirschfield on 02/09/12 at 07:21 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 518 Posts, 2114 Comments
Stuart that skull seems so small for an elephant.
I seem to have lost proportion here( its the age  )
Its interesting what animals do when there is a natural disaster in progress
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Creativity is GOD'S gift to us.
Using our creativity is our gift to other's.
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on 02/09/12 at 10:14 am EST
Registered on 07/24/06, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
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A puzzle of a photograph, but just excellent in b/w!
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Phil Hodgkins
Savannah, Georgia
NPN # 1998
Flora Gallery Co-moderator |
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“The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
― Erwin Schrödinger
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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on 02/09/12 at 2:15 pm EST
Registered on 12/07/07, 247 Posts, 4792 Comments
avi - the skull appears small because of the proportions of the rock and there's little else to put it into perspective. it actually is from an individual roughly late teens/20 years old (from the teeth) so it would have been a fairly big elephant!!
elephants are usually remarkably sensible when it comes to natural disasters - i recall tales of the sri lankan elephants and the 2004 tsunami.
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Stuart Williams
Lilongwe, Malawi
"one's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" - henry miller |
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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on 02/13/12 at 2:45 pm EST
Registered on 10/29/11, 92 Posts, 1035 Comments
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Pretty stark image w/ the skull against the background. Really like the tones in this!
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Tonia L. Graves
Tucson, AZ |
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Comment posted by Hank Pennington on 02/13/12 at 11:41 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 226 Posts, 1532 Comments
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This is really compelling Stuart. I just can't stop looking at it. The BW helps but the swirling shapes just won't free my eye. I still can't decide which is "right side up" even though you're presenting it as shot! With the back story of events, it's very effective.
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -A. Einstein
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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