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Animal Photo Manipulation
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30 Dazzling Wild Animals Photography
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
Monday, August 2, 2010
Superb Examples of Animal Photography
Beautiful Animal Photography
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Red Sheep of Scotland
Could it be a new art form? Painting live sheep and cattle in bright, brilliant colors might become the next big fad in Scotland. One farmer painted his flock of sheep (grazing on a pasture just off M-8 highway at Bathgate in West Lothian) bright red , aiming to entertain passing motorists and to "spice things up" a little. Well, everybody liked the view so much that it became an attraction in itself, and now they even consider using different colors, such as pink. The animals apparently do not mind being sprayed with animal-friendly dye, and will remain red until sheared.
(image credit: BBC)
(images credit: Yodas [flickr])
This colorful tradition is ages old in Ireland and Scotland, where farmers were painting sheep red, or marking them with color - to make them easier to find.
(image credit: ladyanne47)
Apparently they are also doing it in India:
(image credit: S. Nobel [flickr])
In July 2003, Britain's "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy covered a live cow with the images of Andy Warhol's face:
(image credit: Anecdotage)
Not every similar artistic project ends happily. In East Farndon, Northamptonshire, a number of sheep were targeted by a local graffiti gang. The animals were found distressed but uninjured, but this spray-painting attack is being treated as criminal damage by police.
Another victim of graffiti artists (in Russia):
Soccer fans in England are already displaying their patriotic enthusiasm in a similar way:
(image credit: BBC)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Most Painful Animal Bite on Earth
Image: nebarnix
Remember how whiny you were when your parents made you get a job or mow the lawn or whatever it was you had to do to “become a man/woman?” Feel like a sissy looking back on how “hard” you had it then? If not, you will.
The Setere-Mawe people of Brazil have found something far worse (albeit less humiliating) than your first job at McDonald’s.
Meet the bullet ant. So named because those unfortunate enough to have been stung by one compare it to a gunshot wound – very unfortunate people; apparently, they have also all been shot. It reportedly has the most painful sting of any insect on Earth.
Image: Ty Christensen
‘Becoming a man’ in the Setere-Mawe society means intentionally letting yourself get stung by these ants. Not just by one but by hundreds of them at once. And not just on one occasion. There, you are not a man until you have done this ritual twenty times.
Twenty times wearing a pair of gloves each laced with hundreds of live bullet ants, stingers pointing inward, for ten minutes at each go. At first it seems like a horrible practice almost on the level of honor killings, but the boys themselves really seem to have a positive outlook on it. And in America, kids cry when daddy gets them the wrong color car for their sixteenth birthday.