Field guide No. 1466

An octopus on a murky sea floor with its arms smeared into blurred trails while its body stays sharp. One arm is not accounted for.

Octopus with seven motion trails

Long exposure, short arms.

An octopus on a murky sea floor with its arms smeared into blurred trails while its body stays sharp. One arm is not accounted for.

Field noteLong shutter speeds blur moving limbs this way. Count the arms and the eighth is somewhere else.

Specimen
No. 1466
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Nothing
Where it doesn’t exist
A silted sea floor at dusk.
Nearest existing relative
A long-exposure photograph.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking nothing