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Facebook InstagramNAME: Cygnus olor
COMMON NAME: Mute Swan
IUCN REDLIST: Least concern (2008)
Mute swans are native to Europe and Asia, and were introduced to North America, South Africa and Australasia. It is less vocal than other species of swan, hence the 'mute' in its common name. Threats to this species mainly involves water/sediment contamination of lead and copper, and ingestion of lead fishing weights and hooks.
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There are a million photos of swans on DA. I took a few myself in bushy park over the summer! ...but this shot is one in a million Emma, its absolutely stunning! ...well done!
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Thank you so much! What a comment! It's really made my day
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Fantastic... not just another swan shot, this is a really unusual angle. Well done!
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Thank you 
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Aw thank you very much - for both the comment and the fav! There's nothing better than when someone actually takes the time to comment
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I know what you mean. And I think you're deserving for comments - this photo is amazing, really! I love taking photo of swans and you're something like inspiration for me right now. Thank you for that :hug;
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Aw wow, really? 
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Really (: You're mostly welcome. I'm trying to be a better photographer so photos like your really helps me (: So I need to thanks you
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Thanks, both for the comment and the fav
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Very beautiful, I love those colours. Well composed.
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This is stunning Emma, I know very little about photoragphy, but the lighting, the composition and the content are darned professional. Well done!
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Aw thank you!!
Let's hope I can bring a lil bit of this composition, lighting and the professional look to all my Nom-Con photos!! I'm really nervous for it - animals are alot easier to take photos of than people, despite their constant moving about!!
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Cosplayers are a lot like cuddly animals anyways. Loud, huggable and very colourful XD
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Words fail to accuratly articulate the supreme nature of this photo... Wow... this is so beautiful. Great work!
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Wow, that makes me feel so good about this photo, I'm so glad everyone is really liking it. It'll encourage me to do more!
Thank you, for both the fav and the comment
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Very nice capture and I appreciate the link very much
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Thank you, it was really hard since he kept moving about....as animals do
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Yeah they are much easier to photograph if you nail them down first but of course if you nail them the wrong way they bleed all over themselves which sort of spoils the photographs for most although there are people who like that kind of thing. Personally I think if thats what photoshop was invented for. Have you tried draining all the blood out of them, be sure to fill their veins with a saline solution, they're more or less dead then and you can do what you like with them. Once you've finished taking your shots drain out the saline solution, put the blood back in, whack em with a few volts of the car battery and they're as good as new again.
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That sounds like such an awkward process, but I'll take note and try it out next time - will let you know how I get on!! lol
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Don't forget the saline solution. I've done it a couple of times myself. The results are very messy. Have you ever tried applying electricity to dead critters. I'm thinking mainly llamas here for some reason. Simply applying electricity to them is useless. You have to throw loads of water on them first, then its mad the things that can happen. Oh yeah, make sure and wear wellies.
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Wellies, right! Got it!!
How do you get over the fish problem? I mean if you were to apply that whole technique to get a photo in it's natural habitat, then by trying to get it alive, wouldn't you end up frying many other fish? Just a bit of atmospheric oxygen can kill a fish!! (yup, even those anglers that throw the fish back into the water may be killing all their fish without realising!!)
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I must admit to being somewhat shocked and not a little dismayed by your beligerance. I thought everybody who was anybody and their dog knew that galinisation, as first demonstrated by Eddy Galvini, Uncle Galvini's not so favourite nephew, back in 1803, is not applicable to fish.
I'm reasonably certain it works on anglers though. I shouldn't bother killing them first, just throw some water on them and apply the volts.
Be sure to bring your camera along, a photo of that could get you a DD.
And yes, be sure to wear the wellies!
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Oooh, anglers....who woulda ever thought!! I shall pack my wellies and be off to find the nearest angler!! I'll count on you to suggest that shot for a DD once I succeed in capturing it! Then I'll succeed in my life goal of having a DD before I get sent to jail!...Well, I'm assuming I keep the anglers dead, yeah?
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Keeping the anglers dead is optional. I'll leave that up to your own nefarious devices. Personally I've always felt that dead anglers are infinitely more interesting than live ones. For a really interesting shot I'm thinking jam a hook into their mouth and hoist them up.
Don't worry about the jail thing. Claim insanity. We could actually get to meet each other then.
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Yeah!! Fishing for anglers sounds fun!! I shall be seeing you in the asylum then, yeah? About a week from now, yeah?
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It's a date girl. Sure I'd be mad to pass up on an offer like that.
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But if you're not mad to turn up that offer....then you can't really be going to the asylum with me, now can you?
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That's totally off topic! I'm just saying, I'll be in the asylum, you'll have suggested my photo for a DD but then you won't be crazy enough to be allowed join me in the asylum after!
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Most of what you say has an air of clairvoyancy about it and strangely enough, it's exactly what happened with the last woman I got to know through dA. Isn't that a coincidence?
Any decision on the bunny emote yet?
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Was she Irish also? Cos I'd put it down to just being the crazy Irish! 
That bunny emote was totally on my other swan photo, jeez keep up!! 
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All those smiley faces just turn me on.
I know the feckin bunny was on another thread. I just though if I switched threads it might catch you out and you might actually respond.
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Whatever you're into!!
If I'm not responding, then what do you keep responding to?! OMG YOU'RE CRAZY!!!
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Crazy is not a nice word to use. It is not nice to mock the afflicted. Shame on you.
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