Weekly Challenge March 1-7 Animal

Needa

Senior Member
Challenge Team
"Animal" – blackstar's Choice


Post a photo of an Animal/Animals. Domestic or wild your choice.
Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY March 1st.
This early announcement of the topic is to give a little think time, before the challenge begins. Photos must be taken and submitted between 00:00 UTC of the start date and 23:59 UTC of the end date.

If the forum EXIF viewer does not show for any reason, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is acceptable. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.

The Rules

1. Any photo submitted for the Weekly Photo Challenge must be taken using a Nikon Camera! Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread and taken by YOU!

2. If the EXIF does not show using a browser EXIF app, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is required. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.


3. Photos must be posted in this thread to be considered. Links to photos will not be considered an entry (In other words, no Flikr, Photobucket, or similar links)

4. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted.

5. All regularly active members of Nikonites are allowed to participate, including moderators and administrators.

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Thanks/Like button to vote for your favorite images. You can vote for as many as you want! At the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to vote again for the top 3 photos for this challenge!


There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Photo Challenges, unless specifically noted by the site administrator.

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited or straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.



Please note - Rule 2 changed.
 

kevy73

Senior Member
It's a dog's life.

I have a beanbag in my office. Razzle (Nearly 12) always comes to work with me - this is her daily work routine.

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Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
On some previous occasion when “Animals” was the weekly theme, I posted a picture of a mite, the smallest critter I could find and photograph at the time with my D3200. Since then, I've acquired an adapter that lets me use my D3200 with my microscope, and I was determined to find an even smaller animal for this week's challenge. I was hoping for some critter that meets the modern definition of an anima, such as a rotifer or a tardigrade or a gastrotrich or something similar.

No such luck, today. I did find one critter that is some form of a protist, which would have been considered an animal by more primitive definitions. I couldn't get a very good look at it, as it insisted on mostly hiding in a wad of algae, just barely peeking out. Based on what I could see of it, and how I observed it moving, I think it might be a Vorticella, but I really am not very confident of that.

By modern definitions, protists are considered a kingdom of themselves, separate from plants, or animals, or fungi, though many protists are closely enough related to animals or plants that it is not unreasonable to associate them with those kingdoms. I'm pretty sure that whatever this protist is, it is one that is most closely relate to animals.

By happy accident, I also seem to have caught, in this shot, two objects that I am fairly confident are Euglena. Those are the small, green, teardrop-shaped objects to either side of the larger main subject in the middle. Back in the ancient days, when all living things were classified as either plants or animals, Euglena were the subject of dispute between zoologists and botanists, who wanted to claim them as animals and as plants, respectively. Today, I don't think anyone credibly considers them to be either plants or animals, nor particularly related to either..

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