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Cracks Becoming Snakes...
Cracks Becoming Snakes...
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Challenge: Nightmares (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: My Carport, Statesboro, GA
Date: Jul 10, 2007
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Cityscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 10, 2007

 RAW to tiff to jpeg conversion in PS Elements 4.0, Auto-Levels, Accented Edges, Sharpened, Sharpened Edges, USM, Resized, Saved for Web...

This photo was created during a moment of relative "peace" (although I do remember still breathing rather heavily, yet only my IRE was aroused,) therefore you may be assured that the "trespasser" was quite stationary. You see this terribly "unwelcome interloper" and I had an intensely "decaptivating" conversation in my toddler's room during her Sunday afternoon nap.

It made like it about to crawl onto Shanna's bed when I informed it in a rather terse manner that it did NOT have reservations & besides the bed was too small for even one snake.

Before it could complete its rather "weak" argument about being a harmless rat snake, I attempted to cut-off more than its sentence. I stunned it sufficiently with the child-sized ottoman to go get the spaghetti tongs (which I still have no intention of returning to the kitchen and are still outside incidently) with which to further "squeeze" its recalcitrance.

I then took it to the carport where I finished the "job" with a "crosshatch guillotine" (i.e. a pair of scissors.) Finally, I laid the corpse on its concrete bier, and went for my camera to archive my...er...manliness!

Epilogue: How did a snake get into my little girl's room, (Insert Multiple strong Words Here!)? This is my theory. The washer-dryer alcove was placed "dead center" in my home (when it was built around 1980) making it necessary for the vent to travel through a concrete tube under the living room and out the side of the house at foundation level.

Needless-to-say, before dark a sturdy piece of wood covered the hole where a screen used to be,...but still I shook my head thinking, "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" :(

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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/15/2007 08:26:02 PM
would like the see more of the crack and have it more closely mirror the snake (easy for me to say as I'm not the one who's got to touch it!) -- one of my favorites this challenge
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Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+
Canon TC-DC58B 1.5x Tele Converter
07/15/2007 01:34:33 AM
Lay off the mushrooms! Pretty creative and a nice photo. I think it will do well.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
 07/12/2007 12:52:04 PM
I'm not sure if you nightmare is cracks in the ground or the snake?
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Canon EOS-20D
 07/12/2007 05:25:00 AM
stop drinking 7
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Nikon D80
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 07/11/2007 09:45:15 PM
lol
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 07/11/2007 07:19:29 PM
Very creative!
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/11/2007 04:20:49 PM
Now that would be a wild nightmare - the sidewalk would suddenly be lined with hundreds of snakes. I wish there was more of the snake showing here.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 07/11/2007 12:11:42 PM
that is one freaky nightmare - have you seen your doctor about this yet? I think it may not be so much of a nightmare as a psychosis.

From a photography perspective, the image seems a little blown out, the snake doesn't really jump out at me, and the colors seem a little drab.
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 07/11/2007 09:17:32 AM
Nice shot.
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