The Curious Kraken

Thanks Kym :)
I try not to think to much about the possibilities when I’m near the water, LOL!

this kind of creeped me out…which is a compliment…(shudder..i won’t go in the sea for ages now)

brill image

Awesome! Actually wouldn’t mind going near the water to see a Kraken…. :D

Excellent, thanks t1nyskert! :)

Thanks FireRabbit, and I agree. Although I’d be on the beach with a big telephoto lens, rather than on a boat ;)

LOL Brilliant! I think the little boat works better than a big commercial boat.

Cheers Von, glad you like it! And I’d hate to be that fisherman right about now, LOL!

very Dramatic Damian…......wonderful
xkc

Wow – that’s superb – you’ve really nailed the light!

cool art…does make one wonder whats underneath. last time I was 35 miles out and wondering that very thing…

kick.ass.

Thanks Karen!

Thanks Cathie, glad you think so! I’ve decided it’s hard to try and make a hand drawing look like part of a photo, LOL :)

Thanks Ken, glad it does! I tend to think the same, which has held me up from scuba diving heheh!

Cheers Heather!

nice! my bf’s pool has a half broken inflatable octopus nicked name kraken and many of us have fallen victim to it while in a wrestling match.. and it also brought us the joke ” whats cracking?” ....

Fantastic idea…brilliant image!

this is AWESOME Damian…reminds me of ORCA the whale….the sparkles on the water add magic to the whole scene…now do’t tell me it’s meant to be ominous and something gruesome lurks right?....no don’t tell me….let me enjoy this sense of relaxing magic lol!!

great image!

suzanne

Great work!

LOL rawbun :)
You’ve got to always be careful of the kraken!

Thanks Benjamin!

Thanks Suzanne, glad you like it! And doesn’t have to be something gruesome; squid are really cool looking critters. But everythings gotta eat…! Or she could be just playing :)

Thanks Helene!

Stunning work Damian! Love the constrast between the sun on the water and the impending doom! Great stuff!

Awesome work I love this. Awesome Damian

Love it…not that I’m a fan of the ocean. Jaws ruined it for me, lol. But the image, I like very much. Super work, Damian.

Wow!!! This is really fantastic! It really gets the imagination going on what swims below us in the deep!

Nice work Damien, great imagination.

Very creative . . . well done.

I’m scared!:) Good job!:)

Thanks Lee and Jeff; glad you like it!

Thanks Gayla! I do love the water, and find the idea of unknown, giant sea creatures facinating.

Thanks Kevin, funkyface, keeli and Denny! :)

nice work

Thanks checkma8!

Holy cow. I had to look twice. It looks so real

Thanks Helen! What a compliment!

Cracking!!! A curious beast indeed…

LOL, thanks Kaitlin!

This is great…love the idea of silent death lurking just beneath the waves…though as a sailor I have to ignore the concept at times

Thanks Nellie! And I bet being on the ocean is the last place for imagining sea creature attacks!

awesome image!

Thanks ktowers!

Kraken is? can ya tell Im not from Australia lol

fantastic work !

I didnt see the last Pirates yet ... is it from the movie?

Thanks Elaine :)
The Kraken is one of the great sea beasts, like the sea serpent. Certainly not an Australian creation :)

‘Kraken’ is a Norwegian word first used in 1755, based on legends of tenticled beasts that grabbed ships and pulled them under the ocean (had other names before that like the polyp, poulpe, teuthos). Potentially based on giant squid, but well before the giant squid were accepted as real creatures.
Tennyson wrote a poem about them in 1830, and Aristotle and Pliny were writing about them much earlier.

The Pirates movies feature one, but it isn’t their creation by a long way.

This is brilliant! How much fun it would have been to create! Reminds me of a movie I saw the other night about sea creatures: Pirahna 2 – those babies flew and thrived on dry land as well!

Thanks Michelle! Yep, I had fun making this! I’d first though, how cool would it be to see an image like that, and then decided I’d make one when I couldn’t find one :)
I haven’t seen Pirahna 2, LOL! Is it worth seeing? :)

Great work. Funny!!

Thanks Jodie!

wow menacing !

Thanks MuscularTeeth!

WOW…great work! Scary, yet enticing to see the whole thing! ;-) Very cool!

Blown away.

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Go away for a while and look what you do! Scary stuff Damian yet also somewhat beautiful in a fishermen’s about to die but at least the setting is atmospheric kind of way!

Hey thanks Emily! That sounds like a future Photoshop project!

Thanks Birgitta!

Hi Dee! LOL, thanks. I’m glad you see it as beautiful/scary; that’s cool :)

Fishing trip cancelled … ;-)

never seen anything like it.
regards Aletta

LOL, depends which point-of-view you take Chris! The fishing is only just starting for the big guy under the water :)

Cheers Aletta! Hopefully you don’t if you’re out on the water!

am i seeing 2 Kraken.. or just the tip of one mighty beast?.. the Royal Navy on 1803 used 3 Kraken in their campaign again the French naval ports, that’s a little known fact. Super photo of a little known and less seen mammal.

Thanks Simon :)
I’m thinking it’s the one creature, and it’s lying at an angle to the surface. And I’d be interested to read about the Royal Navy event you mention.

You’ve a very imaginative mind and this has to be a favourite.

Thanks EdgeOfReality, glad you think so! And glad you like the kraken :)

I really like this. At first I was like…rocks? Then I looked more closely and the only thought that came to mind was, “Wicked.”

Fantastic.

LOL, cool! Thanks Twistedgrace!

Stunning!

Very interesting!

interesting concept, well executed.

Thanks drjones, Daniel and Michael! Glad you like it!

Deliciously scary image! Although I would hate to be in that boat.

wow,, love this… you have really got alot of talent,, great job

Very awesome. This is why I refuse to swim in water I can see through!

This is awesome Damien! It looks so REAL!! Brilliant work…I love it!

cool, love the surreality (if that’s a word!) of this!

I like this as it seems natural … but clearly isn’t. Very good!

Well done ~it’s like a great first line of a new book ~ grabs you right away and wanting to know what is next!

superb!

Oh I love the Kraken! ...I love legendary monsters of all sorts and this is an awesome image. The lighting is really great, very dramatic great job!

Great job.

brilliantly done.

AMAZING!

BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!

wonderful idea and you pulled it off. GR8 job!

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fantastic work !!!!!

OOOOOOOOO I so love this shot !!!!!! Makes my heart pound lol…. tis a bit scary but also very beautiful :)

Brilliant … such a peaceful serene scene too … about to be shattered :D

Great image…Gets you thinking…

Beautiful work, lovely framing and great creation!!!

See why I gave up diving??!
Great work!

It usually takes me a while to find gems like this
superb Damian

Beautiful. Wow!!

lighting and compo are great!

You did a fantastic job with the lighting match with this!!! Snickered, I did, yo-ho!

Awesome!

Favoriting this! its really cool, and scary

So powerful and artistically fine.

deeply disturbing – taps into all my fears about the sea!! eek! powerful image, and the tiny boat emphasises the danger. t : )

Great image, nice job.