Please dont lick the newts......

[paris]

this picture was taken in my biological illustration class (hey i count as a biological organism-right??) by another student named Moon Hee -I now have an up to date good photo to post on my profile ID - im going to put it through photoshop first though - to make it look a little more interesting......

 

[paris]

i got 2 more sent to my by another class mate named Tammy. these were when i was shooting the photo of the red eyed tree frog on the ball - so i could then use the image in photoshop to produce that picture of the frog on the moon - i really wanted to place the frog on the earth -but we were given the moon file before i came up with the idea -i may redo it...

my subject was hit or miss on sitting still for the photo -plus i only had a few minutes to do it in before the class - i have this picture from my point of view of him climbing up my arm to get out of the spotlight
+++ jpeg +++ 17579 +++ help! i'm being stalked by a red
eyed tree frog +++
and finally he plonked himself down on top of my camera!

 

[paris]

ok - i dont know what happened to the middle picture -its sort of there -but its definitely here!

 

[kaysie]

Looks like that class is a lot of fun. Are you going for a degree? In what?

 

[jesse]

paris i love the mowhawk, i wish i could do that with my hair, but alas i have really curly hair and cant!

 

[pin-pin]

That Taricha (rivularis?) looks like it's saying "I dare you to you try that" with its tail pointing at you.

 

[paris]

its a sierrae -one of my less than cooperative photo subjects...i got lots of good pics of them though-i used them since they are one of the less photographed tarichas -esp this subspecies.....look for my post

kayse -im doing a double degree in biology and geography (emphasis on physical-not cultural) i should graduate may 2005 and im going on to grad school-thats why im moving back east in a year.

(Message edited by paris on July 04, 2004)

 

[clarence]

1) great 'hawk. better than any of mine have ever been. That's why I stick to 'Bic'ing it.

2) are these critters all career bio-models, or are they brought in on a semester by semester basis. Unless it was handled frequently, it seems like it would be difficult to keep a tree frog from taking an impromptu tour of the classroom.

 

[paris]

these critters are mine - i brought them in to use as subjects (many chose flora on campus)-i set up the backgrounds and quite a few of my class mates chose them as the subject for at least 1 of their projects (there was only 1 organism allowed for each of the 3 projects-the 4th project could be multiples) the red eyes were only out for a bit-they can get quite titchy and refuse to sit still. the leaf frogs are naturally calm since they are camoflaged and ambush preditors-although one would occasionally jump out of the setting. i brought in leaves, wood and moss to create the backgrounds for the animals -only the tarichas were shot outdoors.

actually one taricha DID an impromptu tour-she was found in the morning heading for the womens restroom by some students. lucky for me everyone knows about my animals and some of my teachers gathered her up in a plastic shoe box with some water on the bottom cause they thought she looked a bit dry. she is fine-but she still had alot of lint on her face. i found out how she got out though...the plastic shoe box i had her in was not one of the 'locking' types-so she stood on the other two and pushed up the lid enough to squeeze through-the others docily stayed (good thing too!)

 

[sharon]

AWESOME PICS!!

And I love the escapee story!!! What a clever girl!

Sharon

 

[paris]

ok here it is-the cleaned up doctored and tweaked final version of my photo with photoshop -to be used for my ID photo -it doesnt look as good and some details are missing when its small....dont ask how long this took.....

 

[john]

Paris, I really prefer not to have non-serious photos posted in the photo gallery. I don't mean to cause any offence to you but this is somewhat outside the scope of the intended purpose of the gallery.

 

[paris]

sorry john- even though it is a humorous picture in composition i posted it here with the intent to show the comparison to the one above and to show off my newly aquired skills i learned in that class -notably the use of photoshop.i guess it would have been better suited in the photo technique section. now i know how you did the banners here. i finally got the hand of layers, and learned how to find things like that drop shadow and the clone tool (which i had to use to correct my hair)....we were supposed to do a web page too but that all went to a hot place in a cheap green handbasket......

p.s. - i have set it as my ID photo -how come it shows up if i click my name from the scroll below but not with my new posts?

(Message edited by paris on July 06, 2004)

 

[john]

It does show up with your new posts. I think it must be your cache telling you that it's still your old one.

 

[greg]

Maybe we need a gallery of Caudata members (not caudates). I mean, we all kinda sorta know eachother by now and chatting about non-newts and seeing pictures of non-caudates isn't such a bad thing.

Paris, where "east" are you moving?

greg

 

[paris]

greg-to which ever school accepts me for grad work-ideally ohio state or penn state as they are both equal distance from my grandma's house -she lives at the tip of WV in wheeling (yes im from there-so i guess i qualify as a hill billy) got any good leads on who is doing research at good universities that have doctorate programs?

 

[greg]

Check out Ohio University in Athens. I think you'd fit in there in a strangely cool way. for a hill town it has a lot of counter culture (including a "witch" coven apparently). I did my MS work there. A combo of vegetarians, hippies, and squirrel hunters. hill-billy-hippy-punks.

Greg