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Published: 2015-06-23 21:42:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 862; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 0
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"What's the news, Neighbour?""Eh... Wish I could read..."
Walked home from work in the afternoon after some rain when I spotted these two in the middle of one of the most busiest roads of Budapest (called Üllői út). This version is slightly edited (colour tuning) but I kept original tones. It is cropped and signed, as main editing
Please don't use this image without my express written permisson. This image is slowly copyrighted! Unauthorized usage is infringing my rights and calls for legal action.
BTW, if you know the name of the species, please drop me a note / comment.Big thanks to Cypselurus and the group for the help—see the featured comment down there!
Dedicated to Patiszonka —she know's why. (Why not?)
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Dear Zsigmond,
I was not sure about this photo at first but I kept coming back to the shot. Made me think, " What the heck were they doing?" I think they are looking for a nice place to stop and eat. Maps are hell when you do not have thumbs.
Your vision here is quite nice. The humor of the capture is broad, yet subtle.
I felt the was a very original capture of a fairly common creature. A rainy day and most people would not even see this or would miss the humor. Or they might concentrate on the animals and miss the context.
The technique is great. Your color and tone adjustment is done very well. I like that you kept the colors natural. This shot would be very easy to over process. Focus on the snails and the pavement is great. I thought at first that you should have trimmed the car and motorcycle out of the picture, but that brings us back to the context. I looked at the picture both ways. The shot does not have the same feeling. It is just the way it is supposed to be.
Impact is high. I kept coming back and thinking about the different parts and about the whole composition.
With respect,
Herb
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Thank you very much, dear Herb,
this is the final result of at least ten WIP shots. It was quite crazy as I stopped on the busy sidewalk, crouched and started to wait the passers-by passing by from the frame, vehicles come in, etc—and the whole thing in a dripping rain.
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Love this! I love snails to begin with. Fascinating creatures, and the colour palette works very well for it. Draws your eyes right too them.
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Thank you 
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From your gallery you seem to have a keen eye, and have a myriad of interests, which certainly speaks to an open mind 
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Thank you!
Yes, I think this is hard to notice—even because most people won't give any attention to their surroundings.
Today morning as I turned at the corner of the street to the railway station, I found an interesting bird. My first thought was it's a black crowned night heron (Nycticorax N. N.) but I never saw that, especially not in our town. The second thought was an Eurasian bittern (Botaurus Stellaris), but that is even more hideous, and its colours were just not right, too dark, with yellow legs. I asked an expert nature photographer friend as soon as I got net coverage, and posted him some phone shots of the critter. It was indeed a juvenile black crowned night heron. I live here for more than 15 years but this was the very first ocassion that I saw a bird like that.
There was at least five or six people passed by me, one even took a notice about the train (whether I know or not if the train is coming on time), but none of them noticed the bird.
It was not a hallucination, I have shots of it—and our "corner" is about an inflow of a peaceful fishing pond where some less rare birds are permanent, even a grey heron couple nested in the close vicinity.
Okay, this is about ignorance of people, but I had to tell somebody this close encounter
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www.edenpics.com/pictures/005/… that's what I saw. A black capped chickadee. Heh. So I at least had that part right.
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Ha ha! That's an interesting encounter. It's all good. Most folks are just consumed by their own issues to have any real awareness of their surroundings. It's not a bad thing per se. It's just unfortunate. They miss much.
I don't know as much about birds as you do, but funny you should mention that story. Nothing as interesting at my end, but again, same parking lot--I'm there every morning
I think though, noticing things like that is common to artists and folk of similar stripe. I know part of what I try to create in my art, at least for myself, is a sense of immersion. And to do that, you have to be somewhat familiar with the environment you are trying to create. I would imagine that is a huge part of photography. I can look at images of a forest, and hear the wind through the leaves in my head, the creaking of the boughs and trunks, the rustling of small critters under the leaf litter, the cicadas in the trees, the birds singing back and forth. It all plays out in my head, and I feel almost as though I'm there. Or perhaps I'm just extremely odd
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I must say it's very creative photograph. And a fun too!
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Thank you
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Looks like the yellow morph of the White-lipped Snail (Cepaea hortensis) www.aphotofauna.com/images/sna…
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You're welcome!
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(Even them told something that I understand as "thanks!")
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