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Posted on 18/05/26 09:38:36 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Which leads me to wonder if it were what might the sports supplement Accelerade be made from? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 18/05/26 1:11:28 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
I had my suspicions about thie identity of this creature. turns out that it isn't a crocodile, it's an alleygator  _________________ Why is it that all the contestants in the ‘Miss Universe’ contest are all from Earth? |
Posted on 18/05/26 4:22:54 PM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Check her forearm! _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 19/05/26 07:31:47 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Kakadu National Park 2007 |
Posted on 19/05/26 07:40:55 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 19/05/26 11:53:21 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6244 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Today I am putting the shoe on the other foot and setting Steve a challenge! Knowing his love of puns and word games I am asking him to name the seven special types of ’gator shown in the images. Prob'ly worth clicking to enlarge. The rest of you please keep your guesses to yourselves for now. I will reveal all at the end, if by some extraordinary mishap Steve has failed to guess all seven, which I think unlikely in the extreme as any claim on the part of these images to be ‘challenging’ would constitute considerable self aggrandisement! Now I have come to post this, I discover that Gordon has already beaten me to one of them!  
 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/05/26 12:04:44 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6244 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
How the hell did I miss that!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/05/26 12:10:35 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6244 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Ben. Took me a while to spot the first one as he's quite small. Are crocs or 'gators cannibal? I love the one's emerging from their photos .............. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/05/26 2:54:35 PM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
 _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 20/05/26 01:36:27 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3545 Reply  |
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Posted on 20/05/26 10:34:39 AM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 776 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Yes, David saltwater crocodiles are definitively cannibals. Large, dominant males will frequently hunt and eat smaller crocodiles. The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile on Earth, with males reaching maximum lengths around 7 meters 1500 kg. Krys the Savannah King: In July 1957, a massive saltwater crocodile measuring 8.64 meters (28 ft 4 in) was shot by a woman on the banks of the Norman River near Normanton, Queensland. I took that shot of the croc from a boat about 4M away. |
Posted on 20/05/26 11:41:34 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1876 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Some great entries everybody, looks like every angle has been covered. |
Posted on 20/05/26 12:00:42 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6244 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Well what an educational forum this is! I knew that giant crocs could be huge, but 8.64 meters is HUGE. I know also they rarely kill directly with their powerful jaws but use them to immobilise their victims and drown them. I certainly never knew they were cannibal. The same species attacking one another for territory or dominion is of course quite normal ........... but for food? I know insects are sometimes cannibal and, of course, in some instances humans, but what other species I wonder? Well I just did a search and discover that there are, apparently, in the region of 1500 cannibal species! I had no idea .......... even less that among them are chimpanzees and ........ wait for it ............. hamsters!! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/05/26 4:35:53 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3340 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Well done, everyone, you all used your vivid imaginations. 
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Posted on 20/05/26 8:06:55 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6244 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Oh I do like that Michael. You have the clear water floating perfectly defined by the shadow. We can even guess the depth, depending on alligator size which, judging by the bird, is not one of Ben's eight meter monsters! One of the the things that really 'pops' in this challenge is that once this beastie is put in a feasible habitat, its rubbery origins quickly start to vanish. That's not just due to our Photoshoppers. It's a remarkable testament to it's original creator! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/05/26 06:25:21 AM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
_________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 21/05/26 06:29:02 AM |
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vibeke
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sorry _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 21/05/26 06:30:03 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2202 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
 No Swimming Today? by Vibeke Friis, on Flickr
I hope this works _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 21/05/26 09:30:01 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3340 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Thank you David. This one certainly stretched my ability. Finding an appropriate river bed was not easy. Also, it took a while to adjust colours and shades on the river and the beastie, which is, as you stated earlier, not a crocodile, but an alligator. See you later alligator? |
Posted on 21/05/26 09:33:32 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3340 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1105: Rubbery crocs
Vibeke, well done, you got there in the rend. Do they have crocodiles in New Zealand? I suspect not. |
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