Image MG 0403 by Mark Johnson LDPS

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MG 0403 
 This animal lives underwater completely and has a snake like head, which is much longer than its land dwelling cousins, although it looks as though the head has retracted into the shell it did in fact shoot round the back of its shell as the shutter went off, it was living in a huge tank when we saw it and the room was very dark so a tripod was needed, even then though most of the shots were blurred due to the turtle moving, this was one of the better ones until she moved her head!
The glass was filthy also, so i had to select all the background which was a mucky black colour and used alt>bckspce to fill the area with black. I also had to eliminate a lot of reflection from other tanks, the most obvious area of this is on the raised foot at the wrist area. I still like it though i hope you do to!
ATB
Mark 
 Keywords: Photography, snakes head turtle, aquatic animal, turtle, shell, head missing, australian snake headed turtle
MG 0403 
 This animal lives underwater completely and has a snake like head, which is much longer than its land dwelling cousins, although it looks as though the head has retracted into the shell it did in fact shoot round the back of its shell as the shutter went off, it was living in a huge tank when we saw it and the room was very dark so a tripod was needed, even then though most of the shots were blurred due to the turtle moving, this was one of the better ones until she moved her head!
The glass was filthy also, so i had to select all the background which was a mucky black colour and used alt>bckspce to fill the area with black. I also had to eliminate a lot of reflection from other tanks, the most obvious area of this is on the raised foot at the wrist area. I still like it though i hope you do to!
ATB
Mark 
 Keywords: Photography, snakes head turtle, aquatic animal, turtle, shell, head missing, australian snake headed turtle

This animal lives underwater completely and has a snake like

head, which is much longer than its land dwelling cousins, although it looks as though the head has retracted into the shell it did in fact shoot round the back of its shell as the shutter went off, it was living in a huge tank when we saw it and the room was very dark so a tripod was needed, even then though most of the shots were blurred due to the turtle moving, this was one of the better ones until she moved her head!
The glass was filthy also, so i had to select all the background which was a mucky black colour and used alt>bckspce to fill the area with black. I also had to eliminate a lot of reflection from other tanks, the most obvious area of this is on the raised foot at the wrist area. I still like it though i hope you do to!
ATB
Mark