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Topic: Loch Ness monster
Posted By: will
Subject: Loch Ness monster
Date Posted: 18 May 2013 at 8:52pm



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Posted By: Hawley
Date Posted: 20 May 2013 at 8:59am
Great photo there Will :-)


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 20 May 2013 at 9:51am
Thanks; seeing it reminded me of that famous fake photo with the ripples around the head and body of Nessie from the 1930s.


Posted By: tim hamlett
Date Posted: 20 May 2013 at 5:04pm
agreed...great pic matey

tim


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 20 May 2013 at 6:05pm
Thanks mate - we've not seen many from you recently Tim - let's have some more of those excellent sharp DSLR photos soon please!


Posted By: Donny
Date Posted: 24 May 2013 at 7:08am
I thought this post was going to reignite the "Grass Snakes in Scotland" issue.


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 24 May 2013 at 8:50pm
'I thought this post was going to reignite the "Grass Snakes in Scotland" issue' - Donny

forgot to mention I took this one recentlyWink




Posted By: Iowarth
Date Posted: 25 May 2013 at 9:26pm
ROFL - very good Will ! Should scare a few people!
Chris


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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 25 May 2013 at 9:43pm
Thanks Chris - execution by my number one son, bless him!


Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 26 May 2013 at 10:01am
Good one Will its been a bit dormant of recent round here due to the weather Keith

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Posted By: Liz Heard
Date Posted: 27 May 2013 at 8:23pm
as ever, im loving all your recent pix n posts Will. keep em coming please!

i guess the Loch Ness Monster pic you originally referenced was "The Surgeon's Photograph"? (actually he was a Gynaecologist and - if memory serves - i think he subbed a trio of similar fakes from the same session)

yours is "The Teacher's (Son's) Photograph" then

your pic is obviously the better shot by far, and for me, Sir Peter Scott's assertion that "Nessie" is a species of Plesiosaur (which he described as Nessiteras rhombopterix) now seems less credible.


there again, maybe theres more than 1 species in the Loch?
what do you call yours? how about Meganatrixodon vivitlacubus??


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 2:16pm
Cheers Ben, thanks for that - let's go with your latin name.  I seem to remember that Peter Scott gave Nessie the Linnaean binomial in order that it could receive legal protection, to stop it from being hunted.   Doesn't seem to have helped improve its status though, as the species remains as rare as everWink


Posted By: Donny
Date Posted: 31 May 2013 at 3:58pm
You guys might like this if you haven't heard of it:

http://thelochnessgiantsalamander.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://thelochnessgiantsalamander.blogspot.com/

There is a theory that the giant lake creatures occasionally spotted around the world (not just Loch Ness) are actually a long lost species of giant salamander.



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