Octopus

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.

My thoughts? I wish I had taken this! It's wonderful!! Don't change a thing........ 7/7

Takes the word surreal to a new level. Congratulations on a great creative effort.

This is great...I've tried training octopus to pose for me and failed greatly. Congrats! 7/7

True, they're very finnicky models. The trick is to use lots of flattery & fiddler crabs. :-)

This is great. Like it a lot. And thanks for your critic for my "postcard"

 

LeWe

Magic and dreaming image. Very well achieved and composed. Congratulations! 7/7

Love this composition Rachel.

This is not a photo. Octopi are cephalopods. Cephalopods have no skeletal structure. They get they're shape from being in the water. That being the case when they are out of the water they do not look like this. This is not a photo of an octopus and does not belong grouped with the other actual underwater photography.

yes, octopuses are cephalopods, which are invertebrates (although be careful, the nautilus and cuttlefish are both cephalopods which do, to some degree, have 'skeletal structure'). This is a real photo of an octopus, which has been manipulated in photoshop. I'm confused, though - I did not group it with other underwater photography...just with miscellaneous other images, most of which are not underwater...?

Great image, Rachel! I don't need to know the skeletal structure to enjoy your image and post processing work! Some people...

 

Nice portfolio as well. Best, JQ

This picture is so haunting. Great work Rachel, I love it!

Thanks for the compliments! And I understand now - apparently it was placed in an 'underwater' category by the photo.net editors. For what it's worth, the photo of the octopus itself WAS taken while the octopus was underwater...so the categorization is not entirely inappropriate....

This is amazing...I can't describe this photograph! Congratulations!!!!

Creative and imaginative, Rachel. The range of tones, texture, and composition is superb.

Thanks, Crina-Paula and Michael for the kind words.

I suggest to give him a joint to smoke to confuse even more the biologists among us ;-). Karl