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Toadlet on Finger


Toadlet on Finger
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Copyright: Paul Prince (PDP) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2964 W: 366 N: 3848] (11755)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-05
Categories: Amphibians
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Sigma 50 mm 2.8 EX Macro, Digital ISO 200, Kenko 2x MC7 Teleconverter
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Doctor Dolittle and his animals [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-08-10 7:39
Viewed: 1262
Points: 34
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Common toad
Bufo bufo

Common toads vary from dark brown, grey and olive green to sandy-coloured. They have broad, squat bodies and warty skin. They tend to walk rather than hop. These toads are widespread and common in mainland Britain.

Common toads excavate a shallow burrow that they return to after foraging for prey. They secrete an irritant substance from their skin and puff themselves up to deter predators. Common toads tend to live away from water, except when mating, and hibernate during the winter in deep leaf litter, log piles and in burrows.

During mating, the male clutches the female from behind in a tight embrace. He fertilises the long, triple-stranded strings of eggs as she lays them among the waterweeds. Tadpoles hatch after about 10 days and gradually change completely, or metamorphose, into toadlets over about two months. Common toads can live up to 40 years.

What does it eat?
Insect larvae, spiders, slugs and worms. Larger toads may take slow worms, small grass snakes and harvest mice.

When will I see it?
Usually at night, very occasionally in the daytime after rain, from April to October.

Where will I see it?
In and around the pond during the breeding season. Sometimes in the woodland area and other damps areas in the garden. Also in parks, scrubby areas, woods and fields, ditches, lakes and slow-moving rivers

Notes are from the RSPB website.

I hope you like it
marhowie, scottevers7, Comandante, Fisher, wallhalla15, Signal-Womb, liquidsunshine, red45, coasties, halki, Luc, livios, klemmg, dew77 has marked this note useful
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Hi Paul!
Amazing picture of the friendship!
I like look at this kind of photos because they are so warm.
Great job!

Great capture Paul and interesting take with this "finger" job! ;-)) Very good details, sharpness, light and DOF. This image gives a very good idea of the subjects relative size, Well done.

Hi Paul,
Now that is an ineresting POV. This does give a good idea on scale with the finger in there.
The color and detail are very good, and the OOF backround works very well here. Nice Shot with excellent notes.
Scott

Hello Paul!
Very cute little frog.Sharpness,POV,DOF,details and composition are perfect.Thanks for sharing.

Hi Paul,
After the Pee drried off, you were able to capture the toad.
Excellent shot and well done on the composition. The background color compliments the subject.

Mike

Great macro, Paul. Colorfull with very good sharpness and very good details. Very good job. WEll done

Very nice capture Paul, I guess the finger gives us a good measure of scale and I am OK with that. Lovely details and coloring. If Ricardo was still with us I guess he would object strongly to the use of fingers in TN :p 6/10 Well done.

Great shot Paul,
Good detail and great POV. Nicely exposed. Nicely composed. Excellent notes and nicely framed. DOF is spot on.
Well captured that man with steady hands, thanks for posting.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2828 W: 75 N: 8009] (26813)
  • [2005-08-11 5:06]

Hi Paul!
Small and cute. I like its surprised face, gold tones on skin and eye. BG is very suitable and finger not distracting :-) Good work!

Hello Paul

What a tiny wee charachter. Good detail. Excellent catchlight in that tiny eye. The finger gives this good scale. Nicely done. Thanks.

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  • halki Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 253 W: 8 N: 105] (467)
  • [2005-08-11 7:35]

Hello Paul!
Very nice capture.DOF,clean details and composition are great.
Thanks for posting...

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2058 W: 315 N: 4404] (14713)
  • [2005-08-11 7:45]

Sorry Paul, I have no time to write a decent comment. I give to you the well deserved smily.
Day thought: Who is God, otherwise an eternal Child playing an eternal Game in an eternal Garden. (Sri Aurobindo)
Thank you for sharing pictures and notes and for the enjoyment which they give to me.

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  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2306 W: 324 N: 4306] (16856)
  • [2005-08-11 12:42]

Paul, very nice interaction. The little guy looks really great from this pov.

Excellent sharpness, composition and blurred bg. To me, no nits.

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  • klemmg Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 302 W: 40 N: 484] (1719)
  • [2005-08-11 17:55]

Finger provides scale, and a nice foreground to give it some depth. Good detail ands sharpness. Wonderful warm colours. BG with dark spots and FG/subject make a nice zigzag pattern for the eye to follow. Often images with a smoothly blurred BG tend to look a bit boring as the eye has no path to travel. Here, it has the FG and dark/light patterb creating lines for orientation. Excellent!
Gabi

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5171 W: 297 N: 4050] (13069)
  • [2005-08-12 2:41]

Hello Paul!
Wonderful capture of the little frog.It's very good for to see him with a finger for undertanding his dimensions.Sharpness,POV and composition are excellent.TFS....:-)

Hi Paul, the finger helps to understand just how small this little toad is! The toad is very detailed and the colors very natural. Very nicely done!

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  • deud Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 500 W: 2 N: 466] (2123)
  • [2005-08-15 3:45]

great little creature! amazing focus on subject. very pleasant colour. tfs

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