Baltimore Blue Crab
by Brian Wallace
Title
Baltimore Blue Crab
Artist
Brian Wallace
Medium
Photograph - Photo-art
Description
A grayscale digital representation of a silhouetted Downtown Baltimore skyline. I placed a capture of a full "Hunter's Moon" (from 10-20-21) in the background with a glow around it and a blue crab image within the silhouetted buildings. At the bottom in text is the city name, "BALTIMORE". For this version I included text shadow as well.
In 1989, the Maryland Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun) was designated the State Crustacean (Chapter 724, Acts of 1989; Code General Provisions Article, sec. 7-303). Its name honors Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), the scientist who described the species in 1896.
The blue crab's scientific name translates as "beautiful swimmer that is savory." Blue crab meat sometimes is compared to the sweetness of lobster meat; the flavor best appreciated by cracking and eating steamed hardshells or feasting on softshells. Crab is prepared in restaurant and home kitchens in innumerable ways, steamed or sauteed, as Maryland Crab Cakes and Crab Imperial, or in crab soup and crab dip.
Callinectes sapidus, the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or regionally as the Chesapeake blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.
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November 8th, 2021
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Brian Wallace
Thanks Jenny Revitz Soper, for featuring my work in the group, https://fineartamerica.com/groups/no-place-like-home-.html
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… SELECTIVE COLOR ONLY - SILHOUETTES! F/L