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Animal or Vegetable?
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Animal or Vegetable?

by Gary Minish

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted October 23, 201578 views4 comments
My wife, Kayla, found this one while walking the dogs on the river flats.  She saw a giraffe, I saw a cow moose.  I've shown it to many of the locals and posted it on Google+ so I have received a variety of suggestions on the identity of this creature but the most unusual guess was that it looked like a stick!  Can you imagine that!

Sony ILCE-6000, SEL-1670Z @ 70 mm (105 mm equiv.), ISO-100, f4.0, 1/250

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 23, 2015 at 9:35 AM
Some folks just don't have no imagination, Gary.  Obviously a stray river horse.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on October 23, 2015 at 10:26 AM
With that drooping nose, it could only be a camel, a one hump camel.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 23, 2015 at 1:38 PM
Gary, with the long face and tipped down nose, I'll have to go with stick (oops I meant Moose, enlightened ).  I like your processing here to really let the critter pop and love the details in the wood.  Your wife has a good eye.
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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on October 24, 2015 at 12:42 PM
A moose sticking its head through the brush.  Nice find.
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