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Published: 2007-12-11 15:33:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 13272; Favourites: 579; Downloads: 16
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Edit: This image got an DD from IreneLangholm on the 20th of december. Thank you very much for viewing my image and for the nice comments and
s! I'll take the watermark away so it can be better appreciated
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I always felt a special love for seahorses (Hippocampus). I was really getting sad while finishing this piece of art β¦ stupid humans, destroying everything and trying to get the last specimens before complete extinction.
Many species of seahorse are threatened with extinction because of human activities. Their habitats are destroyed by fisheries. They are caught and used as medicine or dried and sold to tourists. They are also caught and sold as aquarium fish, but most do not survive as seahorses are very hard to keep.
Stock used:
- Fish hook
- bubbles brushes
- background
sxc.hu - www.sxc.hu/photo/773206 - seahorse
sxc - www.sxc.hu/photo/875114 - bird cage
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Comments: 185
Very nice. Sad about the Seahorses. My water aerobics team is called the Seahorses.
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This is sad. I know this to be true, and it is not just animals that are being controlled, cadged and mistreated by humans... we are doing to ourselves as well. We have little natural spirit anymore.... we traded in our sould for $$$ and so called "security". This "security" is confinment, not freedom as we have been convinced. And unfortunatly human animals see themselves as above all the other species. We take them down with us.
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"Hippocampe" is "seahorse" in French
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Thank you my dear
I like it too although it has a sad message ... Seahorses are one of my favorite animals ...
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yes they are amazing..it is a sad message...but it is reality !! i would die to see one in real...
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Sea horses for the world.
I never liked zoos, dead animals they sell to tourists, and other such things either.
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This is absoloutely exquisite. As soon as I saw it, I thought "That has got to be given a Daily Deviation!" Looks like someone beat me to it, and I'm quite glad, because this is a piece that deserves to be widely aknowleged.
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Thank you very much for your kind words 
Diana
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It is so very sad to look at...
Seahorses are so beautiful, but in the place where they belong...
Dunno why, if people like them.. destroy them just to show them off or something
I think the DD comment is perfect for the work
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This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on *Word-worth-1000-pics which is a community project
promoting visual art deviants
It has been found from the word : "BUBBLES "
you can see it featured here: [link] 
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ObrigadΓ£o
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Such a touching concept behind this image and one we should take heed to .Beautiful work and congrats on the DD
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Thank you very much for your kind comment!
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No other words but other than utterly amazing.
I love seahorses.
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Hello! 
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Happy Holidays!
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Thank you very much for this
Diana
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I too have been especially fond of seahorses for about as long as I can remember. My first and only tattoo is a little orange seahorse named Harpo.
This is so simple, yet so moving.....though I agree that the bubbles, if they're trying to look like they're realistically rising up from the bigger one, ought to be more spaced out. but do seahorsies make bubbles? I feel silly because I don't actually know....Perhaps you could make a copy of this without bubbles and see if you like it better?
anyway, great work. I'm not a fav-crazy kinda deviant, but this deserves a place in my favorites.
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Thank you for your kind comment and your critique. Now that it was said some times I start to think it too ... I mean about the bubbles. In fact I don't think they normally do bubbles at all but the reason I put the bubbles there was to strenghen the feeling of desperation.
Have a great day,
Diana
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Wait....I don't speak French....Why did I understand most of that?? That was weird.....O.o...anyways...I love how the backgound works out in this.
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Powerful indeed. Yes it is a big shame 
(Isn't sxc.hu a great place for stock photos?? XD)
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i like it, however i feel that the bubbles are a bit too close to each other.
the sea horses do show a sense of sadness, which seems to be what you are suggesting for the image. nice work there.
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Could be, I start feeling this too but as I said above: In fact I don't think they normally do bubbles at all but the reason I put the bubbles there was to strenghen the feeling of desperation.
Diana
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omfg
[link] .
i cried when i saw this
its so sad... yet so beautiful
its amazing
keep up the good work
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Sorry I made you cry ... my art is often ment for meditation so crying sometimes is part of it
Diana
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OH wow.. that is just so sad! Great pic and congrats on the DD!
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Beautiful image and a great concept.
I'm so misanthropic these days... Nature really needs a rest from us humans
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Oh nature will always find a way and survive ... the question is: will we?
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Well, to be honest... it's a question if we deserve it after all we've done.
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you. are. GOD.
this is so sad...it made me cry...
but yet...its so beautiful...
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sorry it made you feel sad but my images are often ment t make you meditate about a theme
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