Salmon - Coming Home
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Salmon - Coming Home
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography-digital Art
Description
An appropriate look into the heavens of the salmon journey just ending.
The salmon run is the time when salmon, which have migrated from the ocean, swim to the upper reaches of rivers where they spawn on gravel beds. After spawning, most Pacific salmon and Atlantic salmon die, and the salmon life cycle starts over again. The annual run can be a major event for grizzly bears, bald eagles and sport fishermen.Salmon spend their early life in rivers, and then swim out to sea where they live their adult lives and gain most of their body mass. When they have matured, they return to the rivers to spawn. Usually they return with uncanny precision to the natal river where they were born, and even to the very spawning ground of their birth. It is thought that, when they are in the ocean, they use magnetoception to locate the general position of their natal river, and once close to the river, that they use their sense of smell to home in on the river entrance and even their natal spawning ground.
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June 23rd, 2013
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Comments (13)
RolandK Art
M A G I C A L... it seems that not only the golden fish but also a salmon can fulfill a wish :)
RolandK Art
M A G I C A L ... it seems that not only the golden fish but also a salmon can also fulfill a wish :)
Kathy Bassett
So happy you enjoyed this image, Kathy - I appreciate your lovely comment, and L/F! Thank you
Kathy Braud
Congratulations on your many feaures, Kathy! this photo is lovely and so rich and electrifying! The twinkles really add an abstract quality to the image. I also love the colors. L/f
Kathy Bassett
Thank you for having Salmon - Coming Home on your Beige Brown Sepia features page, First Star Art!
Kathy Bassett
Thank you Cassondra for the opportunity of feature on your home page with many creative artists! in your Non DSLR Photography group.!