February 12th, 2007
Darwin Day – 198 years
This is my Darwin Day tribute to Charles Robert Darwin, born Feb. 12, 1809. Originally, I set out to create something rather different, but changed my plans when I realized that they were far too ambitious. In the end, I’ve put together a selection of photos from the Kingdom Animalia. Once I got started, I realized just how many photos I’ve taken of different creatures – and that’s just the digital stuff from the past 4 years. If I had dipped into the older film stuff, I could have added whales and numerous other creatures. Anyhow, here’s what I’ve put together over the past day. There’s no particular system to their arrangement or selection. My only real “rule” was to try not use more than one member of a Family, or stick with Orders, but it all became a little messy, so in the end, there’s a little of everything. I should add that this collection was determined by time (or lack of time) rather than by what I had available to work with from my photo collections. I’ve missed quite a lot of what I could have included (Oh well!). If you’re interested in taking a look through more of my nature photos, just visit my online photo galleries which currently contain approximately 4,400 images (still just a fraction of what’s stored in my hard drives!).
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