Mans Trash on the Trinity

Gallery: Man & FaunaPosted June 21, 2014270 views3 comments

Plastic and styrofoam are toxic to our waterways and ponds. This stretch of Trinity runs through Dallas as a Black Crowned Night Heron glides by and a Great White Egret stalks the rivers edge for food.
Having traveled up and down the Trinity by canoe it gets real ugly in areas that hold on to the the plastic during floods.
Sony a77v
Sony G Zoom 70-200 mm f 2.8 @ 200mm
f 5.6
1/90 sec
Iso 200

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Comment posted by Carl Battreall on June 23, 2014 at 1:59 PM

Plastic is such a global nightmare. Would love to see a complete story of the river.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 26, 2014 at 7:20 AM

And a lot of this junk ends up in our gulf. The plastic waste circulates out their for years like a giant toilet..
Then there's the 'dead zone' that covers nearly 7,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico, from fertilizer and pesticide use & the subsequent algal blooms that deplete oxygen levels..
Thanx for bringing attention to this Rick

Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on July 14, 2014 at 7:41 PM

I like this image and the motion in the heron adds to it - making it really feel "alive". For this to really work as an EPJ photo I think the trash would need to be more visible (either brightly colored, more of it, or more in the foreground) but it does show how it mixes in with the natural community.

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