The Swamp

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The Swamp
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Can you guess what this is?

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Image Description

A section of the trunk of a Eucalyptus, near Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Technical Details

D500 + 105mm macro 1/125 f9 ISO 2500 + flash

Denoise - enhancement of colors with PS (Shadows, Highlights and Curves).

Specific Feedback

Aesthetic and Technical

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Hi Mike, I sure wouldn’t want to swim in that swamp! There’s probably a huge gator in there. :grinning:

Really awesome layers of color. The greens especially look like algae covered swamp. Nicely seen and photographed!

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Hi Mike,
it looks like a tree bark to me.
some kind of eucalyptus .
I would fix/crop the LLC dark “something”.

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I’m with Joao on the identification. Looks like a vertical rotated 90 to create a horizontal.

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I would vote Eucalyptus bark. I love the peeling texture of those trees!

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Mike,

Very cool! At first glance, yes, I can see some sort of primordal swamp with maybe a touch of nuclear glow… :laughing: :wink:

Upon opening the larger view, the clues are more apparent. Regardless, a terrific and intimate view of the tree bark. Of course I don’t know what the original scene was like, but I really like the variety of colors developed and presented.

No suggestions. Terrific natural abstract.

Lon