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Mating Buckeyes: Who’s On Top???

Posted by August 19th, 2010 at 12:08 am

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Buckeye Love
Location:  Central Maryland
August 18, 2010 11:23 pm
These buckeyes are everywhere on my aunt’s Maryland farm. I caught a pair mating. Any idea which gets to perch on the leaf and which is stuck dangling upside down?
Sara

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Mating Buckeyes

Hi Sara,
Your photo is so crisp and beautiful and it took absolutely no post-production level or curve control.  Your characteristic curve is perfectly fine.  The details are rendered nicely in the highlights, midtones and shadows.  We do not know the answer to your question, so we played the photography professor’s card.  We think our readership may have fun researching this one for us.

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