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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Gallery Thirty Two: On Safari -- expressing the essence of nature > Tongue, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2008
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Tongue, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2008
11-OCT-2008

Tongue, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2008

This would have been just another descriptive image of a grazing moose, if not for the long tongue coming out of its mouth. The tongue is the detail that gives this image its message: a moose having a good breakfast.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/250s f/4.5 at 52.2mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis 19-Oct-2008 19:38
You are right, Carol -- the life of a moose is no joke. This is not a zoo -- these animals are on their own, and survival is the name of the game they play. I thought the tongue offered us a change of pace, even if it is anthropomorphic.
Carol E Sandgren 19-Oct-2008 19:09
What fun! I see the tongue wagging as a gesture of joking. So refreshing! (but I guess we all know that there is no joking in a moose's life.)
Phil Douglis 18-Oct-2008 23:02
Thanks, Tim -- once again, it was burst shooting that did the trick. I took a number of frames, and the tongue happened to be out in one of them. It is the detail that makes the image work.
Tim May 18-Oct-2008 21:46
What a wonderful detail.
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