This is possibly the start of a short series. Pictures taken on New Year’s Day on a trip to the beach during a very low tide with my nephews and bro. Tom (my bro) brought the kids there to explore the exposed rocks for interesting marine life.

My mum was up at the park totally in her element amongst the plants and foresty part of the nature reserve. My dad, Tom, the kids and I were down at the beach in our boots mooching around.

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At one point, I saw Tom showing my dad something stringy. I went up to them and it was an octopus’s tentacle. Say 25cm long. Tom reckoned the octopus must’ve released it in a tussle. I asked Tom to place it on a rock so I could photograph it. Surprise surprise, right? Is there anything I DON’T photograph??…hahaha.

Anywho, was quite pleased with how this turned out when I came back and viewed it on the computer. So I thought I’d share it with you all. Hope this doesn’t make anyone’s skin crawl. I myself think it’s rather pretty. And don’t worry…if I’m not wrong, octopi don’t feel much when they jettison their tentacles. Kinda like house lizards and their tails.

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Andrew

PS After cropping and resizing, I increased shadow 20%, sharpened, and increased contrast 10% to get this final image.

Tags: Beach Marine Sea Close-up and macro Tentacle Octopus Wildlife and nature

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