Turtle Photography by Kozmic Dreams

My Digital Photography of

Turtles

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Henry Ford Estate Eastern Painted Turtles, Chrysemys picta picta, April 2, 2010

Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina, July 26, 2009

On July 26, 2009, this turtle was spotted climbing down a hill toward Hines Drive. Having rescued several snappers in the past from busy roadways, I wasn't going to let anything happen to this one either. I knew it should be relocated to a safer place. But before its relocation, of course, I had to take some photographs of it. It wasn't the largest snapper I've ever found, but it was quite big and muscular. I also removed and photographed two leeches from its shell, although I think they had been sucking on it's hind leg area because it had some bloody marks.

These are the photos of its release into a nearby pond. They are kind of out of focus because there were so many mosquitoes it was unreal. I would have taken more photos if I could, but I already suffered 5 bites for these 6 photos.

Here is a video of the turtle walking...

Henry Ford Estate Eastern Painted Turtles, Chrysemys picta picta, July 14, 2009

The Henry Ford Estate in Dearborn, MI is always a great place to find good creatures to photograph. Although I intended on photographing insects on this day since all I had with me was my macro lens, I ended up photographing mostly frogs at a certain pond, but I also captured these two turtles. One was just a little baby, only about an inch long. Click here to see photos of the frogs I photographed on this day.