Spiritual Tiger Of The Foggy Marshland

by DB Hayes

Title

Spiritual Tiger Of The Foggy Marshland

Artist

DB Hayes

Medium

Photograph - Photography, Digitally Enhanced Photos,

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COPYRIGHT DISCLOSURE NOTICE: THIS IS A COPYRIGHTED, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PROTECTED IMAGE. IT IS ALSO MONITORED FOR ILLEGAL PIRACY DOWNLOADS BY PIXSY.

WE are proud to write the following art groups have featured our "Spiritual Tiger Of The Foggy Marshland" artwork:

1 = Animal Photographs: 1/06/2019
2 = Images That Excite You: 1/06/2019
3 = Nikon Full Frame Camera: 1/06/2019
4 = Just Perfect: 1/06/2019
5 = Showcasing The South: 1/06/2019
6 = Created by Southern Artists: 1/06/2019
7 = USA Photographers ONLY: 1/07/2019
8 = Whats New: 1/07/2019
9 = Wildlife ONE A DAY: 1/08/2019
10 = FAA Portraits: 1/08/2019
11 = Digital Art and Photography for a Simple Imagination: 1/08/2019
12 = Our 4-Legged Friends: 1/09/2019

This is an image I, Bill, am especially proud of for many reasons. First, I have great respect for and love most animals. Second, my underlying reason for creating this unique work of art aside from being able to offer its beauty to you (I hope many of you will find it as pleasing to your eyes as I do to mine) is I'm hoping to use it as a small way of bring attention to the help all wild animals need from us humans if they are to survive as their numbers seem to be getting smaller as time pasts. More on this subject later.

This work consists of the combination of 2 entirely different photographs taken in 2 different states. First, the foggy image. For some time I had wanted to acquire many foggy images of waterscapes, marshlands, woodlands, etc. to add to my collection for possible use in the future to create more interesting art. So, after watching the weather reports for awhile I felt the right foggy scenes would be available for me to photograph very early one morning at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, which is located south of Tallahassee, Florida along the Gulf Of Mexico. I drove the 2 hours to get there before the sun burned off the fog and was able to shoot close to 80 foggy images using a Nikon D850 camera. Of course, one of those images provides the scene for this work.

Next the tiger, which was captured in Georgia in 2018. I'm not at liberty to say where since the park where this tiger was held captured asked me not to use its name. The tiger was free to roam around and appeared to be healthy. It also had a mate.

I processed both images using Photoshop CC to bring out the best of each. Over a period of several days and after many failed attends during which time I tried several methods to blend the two images. Finally, I was able to create this image and found it very pleasing to my eyes. Now for a little info about this species according to Wikipedia. Deb also loves it I might add.

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. It is an apex predator, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support its prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that it is indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.

The tiger is among the most recognisable and popular of the world's charismatic megafauna. It featured prominently in ancient mythology and folklore and continues to be depicted in modern films and literature, appearing on many flags, coats of arms and as mascots for sporting teams. The tiger is the national animal of India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and South Korea.

Major threats to the tiger include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching for fur and body parts, which have simultaneously greatly reduced tiger populations in the wild. In India, only 11% of the historical tiger habitat remains due to habitat fragmentation. Demand for tiger parts for use in traditional Chinese medicine has also been cited as a major threat to tiger populations. At the start of the 20th century, it was estimated there were over 100,000 tigers in the wild, but the population has dwindled outside of captivity to between 1,500 and 3,500. Some estimates suggest that there are fewer than 2,500 mature breeding individuals, with no subpopulation containing more than 250 mature breeding individuals. The global wild tiger population was estimated by the World Wide Fund for Nature at 3,200 in 2011 and 3,890 in 2015—Vox reported that this was the first increase in a century.

India is home to the world's largest population of wild tigers. A 2014 census estimated a population of 2,226, a 30% increase since 2011. In 1973, India's Project Tiger, started by Indira Gandhi, established numerous tiger reserves. The project was credited with tripling the number of wild Bengal tigers from some 1,200 in 1973 to over 3,500 in the 1990s, but a 2007 census showed that numbers had dropped back to about 1,400 tigers because of poaching. Following the report, the Indian government pledged $153 million to the initiative, set up measures to combat poaching, promised funds to relocate up to 200,000 villagers in order to reduce human-tiger interactions, and set up eight new tiger reserves. India also reintroduced tigers to the Sariska Tiger Reserve and by 2009 it was claimed that poaching had been effectively countered at Ranthambore National Park.

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Bill and Deb Hayes

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January 6th, 2019

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