Smooth newton : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Smooth newton / Javier Ábalos
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | I like compositions where one can appreciate the visually chaotic environments in which animals live. I think it helps to understand how predator avoidance and background-matching have shaped the diversity of colorations, textures and patterns we observe in animals. I also like images to convey a feeling of wilderness, which I mean as the pre-human physical reality which came about by purely natural processes. Wilderness as the world the way it was up until yesterday, in evolutionary times. That is the world where animals (including us) have evolved and the world we are equipped to deal with, even if everything has changed enormously in the last couple of centuries. We can't solve the mess we have unleashed without understanding why organisms have evolved to be the way they are. And to do that, studying/observing wildlife in relatively pristine areas is fundamental.This smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) was chilling at 1°C in a puddle near Stensoffa (Skäne, Sweden), where I took this picture in situ. All of southern Sweden is a deeply transformed area, yet for relatively small animals, there are still some patches of suitable habitat left. Never underestimate the importance of scale. As in many other species of newts, the cryptic dorsal coloration contrasts with its brightly colored bellies, suggesting that two opposing selective forces may underlie the evolution of dorsal and ventral coloration in urodela.#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #urodela #smooth #newt #amphibian #pond #sweden #skane #science #popsci #popularscience #zoology #biology #herpetology #macro #underwater #insitu #conservation #wilderness |
| 撮影日 | 2022-02-12 15:07:04 |
| 撮影者 | Javier Ábalos , Valencia, España |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 6D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.077 sec (1/13) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 100 mm |